"Nature is a dictionary," he said, "one draws words from it".
It even drew words from South African President Jacob Zuma, who called it "shocking," "cruel" and "most inhumane," saying such a crime has "no place in our country".
The software draws words from the inventor's title and primary descriptions to write the application in the prose and format particular to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The artists on this year's shortlist are all studiously versatile, cross-fertilising painting with installation, stitching with drawing, words with images.
Only some superior "individual experience", the tiresome argument goes, can provide the writer with authentic organic matter from which to draw words and images.
Most subcultures tend to draw words and phrases from the contiguous language (rather than creating many new words) and to give these established terms new and special meanings; some borrowings from foreign languages, including the American Indian tongues, are traditional.
In reality, although close friends with these and other artists of the New York Abstract School, he deliberately diverged from their ambitions of pure abstraction in colour to introduce drawing, words and different materials.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, 1928-2011, was one of the outstanding figures of American post-war art, famous for introducing pencil drawing, words and literary references into abstract art and for painting vast canvases.
Brown's midfield colleague, Victor Wanyama, also drew words of acclaim from the manager, who had recently valued the Kenyan at a tongue-in-cheek £25m.
The app allows you to instantaneously translate words or phrases that you photograph, speak, type or draw words that you'd like to get translated, hear the pronunciation of the translation, and save translations for future reference.
