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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) The OED Accepts Some Familiar New 'Words.' Wall Street Journal, Mar 26,
2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
52748704050204576218912192800384.html
(LOL, OMG, FYI)
(2) Week in Ideas: David DiSalvo. Wall Street Journal, Mar 26, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2748704461304576216701734013390.html
(read only the third piece titled "Linguistics[:] Metaphors Matter")
(3) Guy Gugliotta, Deciphering Old Texts, One Woozy, Curvy Words at a Time;
Scanning Programs make mistakes, and that's when we come in. New York Times,
Mar 29, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/science
/29recaptcha.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=gugliotta&st=cse
("What Web readers do not know, however, is that they have also been
enlisted in a project to transform an old book, magazine, newspaper or
pamphlet into an accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text file
")
Note:
(a) woozy (adj, origin unknown): "having a soft, indistinct, or unfocused
quality : VAGUE, FUZZY"
www.m-w.com
(b) CAPTCHA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
(coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John
Langford (all of Carnegie Mellon University), a contrived acronym based on
the word "capture" and standing for "Completely Automated Public Turing test
to tell Computers and Humans Apart")
(c) In the print, there is a side bar to this report.
Guy Gugliotta, A Speech Lost in Digital Translation
, which prints out what optical character recognition software (OCR) read
part of the last paragraph
a contemporary New York Times report about Address of John Brown as follows.
"I fear it lhas been stated by Of 1 bave this to them I never saw , and
never hld a ot conversation with till the c *lay they C:IIII to me, and that
for the I halve stated. Novw I have done."
The transcript actually said, "I hear that it has been stated by some of
them, that I have induced them to join me; but the contrary is true. I do
not say this to injure them, but as regretting their weakness. Not one but
joined me of his own accord, and the greater part at their own expense. A
number of them I never saw, and never had a word of conversation with, till
the day they came to me, and that was for the purpose I have stated. Now, I
am done."
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/john-brown-150/addres |
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