In an e-mail, she wrote to me, "You can't use language and avoid moral dimensions, since words are so weighted (lilies that fester vs. weeds, etc).
"We're at the beginning of a 10-year period where we're going to transition from computers that can't understand language to a point where computers can understand quite a bit about language".
What is it?" "It can't be language," Mason said.
OK. 'Well then, why can't the language be about that?
Science is an international discipline and you can't allow language barriers to get in the way of research.
Can't we language mavens set aside our fixed positions, rise above petty politics and find common ground?
It is instructive that his essay includes the phrase You don't (despite withering cultural pressure), have to use a computer, but you can't escape language.
Why can't the language be as weird as the ideas?
The language – they can't speak the language … there's a level they can't access".
"Every honest linguist will tell you the preservation of language is a lost battle," Ms. Ugresic said, "because you can't deal with language dogmatically.
It is painful to me that I can't speak my language and my daughter is also growing up without her language.
