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is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at... Buffalo.
Here's one of my favorite piems:
How I need a drink,
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alcoholic of course,
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after the heavy lectures
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involving quantum mechanics!
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Happy Pi Day!
די לשימוש במילים לועזיות! לכל מילה לועזית יש אקוויוולנטית בעברית.
After installing the latest Babylon version 6, I couldn't resist testing the NLP-famous-example-sentence I've learned from my best friend's father, a computer expert, some 15 years ago... time flies like an arrow. Does it mean, "time flies" like an arrow? or does it mean, time (as in space-time) flies like an arrow? Or does it mean, time (as a verb) flies like an arrow? You can't know, out of context, what the sentence is supposed to mean, hence the trouble for Natural Language Processing programs. Babylon chose the latter...
