Talk:Language

Netbeans start page links to this article with the title "APIDesign - Blogs: Fuck Your Language Up to Become...".

Nice job whoever is in charge of managing the start page for Netbeans. You've shown your lack of maturity to many thousands of people.

--Netbeans Accosted Me 18:30, 16 October 2013 (CEST)

Opps.

I've forgotten my personal blog is synerged to NetBeans. I agree it was not wise to use such strong title at the time NetBeans is coming out.

I apologies for showing lack of maturity. I wanted my blog post to be about Slavic linguistic, not English one.

--JaroslavTulach 18:49, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

There are quite simple examples that show that you cannot parse the english langauge (any language?) without context. The one I like best is:

Time flies like an arrow.

For a human it's pretty clear what it means, but for a lexer program (that has no context) it could mean two things:

1) A special kind of flies - the "time flies" - do like arrows.

2) time passes as quickly as an arrow flies.

--Hans 19:29, 16 October 2013 (CEST)