From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 5933 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2022 23:03:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jan 2022 23:03:08 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5E45E9D00F; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:03:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1D79CFC9; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:02:53 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=dartmouth.edu header.i=@dartmouth.edu header.b="IEZr9iy9"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 60E5D9CFC9; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:02:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-wr1-f49.google.com (mail-wr1-f49.google.com [209.85.221.49]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B22199C78F for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:02:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-wr1-f49.google.com with SMTP id h10so1015046wrb.1 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:02:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dartmouth.edu; s=google1; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=8SkYuYlqK6J8d6RAv62nzCcEYTJsTsmIfQNiyjLuU2o=; b=IEZr9iy9sQN4fPXNNZFBthhvS/uZ1uvoXosjHIpbQgNhD0p/YBd2pOT1Dpbuw5wC8r W0v23H5kKBb6idoVLi9+5l1JKwHzx3lEacLu0ayUHnnTxoggMCaYIauEpEu2NLHQznvn WKv0dqZkVgTS7rFH7kuRR4EyaEVfMEap6rdYgMLTri5kuVOxF6kR6LAEQUbiNGdKRsrN gMu0cHRlJLBII+V+FUEP1/yO5bbNDZM0hg37XbLH4NLl4toATTtw+COMPxDHJG+IeN/s b58YbQN0V3KRHhEpFEMR382Q3Qun0ErT5E6I6O5lheG3Y3KX7dONza/ZSxZm5smL2/VA W2zQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=8SkYuYlqK6J8d6RAv62nzCcEYTJsTsmIfQNiyjLuU2o=; b=musqviOseQhYX+jjER3BLBcfEn/440AFGamp6oeCCa7YUn4NjXbtmAcs85QBxoQTFO v8MSj/daiS/fe1ImxdEf7jXFFXFWqlgaU5riH7nfgPcd+vjMToyMzf8bA7LKAPU8V7Gj /KMkkXogIY1v3eWEaodEBT/h1l8YHQOXIoJOwTGW2h6IPhBgOYraeXtYfvpa3SjVcyiz fTOHDXtrTTuO/cSYCnTXfprTzwTieprvKJkLmhpKrd6lumt+q7Gvgw2bgpmA86ThvEFV EFOb5AfDRZ0SGdqMM6i9Ik5HSQInYHSFkSMPL9diZGRgnHtluFmfzS5o8eg0sTpSvKbR 8czg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533Ze+hyFM0vobOZL7tNK3td8yHl5Nb4nerCeb11LjSYgiduNmic HNxXlppgMfQ9lsjXT8tDTB8HIrn/gfQ7sOBU8qWLUP0hI36daw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzXVbPjmOr2XGxZFNsJEXZil6ccH4+3CGPCnH7p7BPJNIeZ3RE3ZteMWhbUipiVnuunrCe9vvO3SSTRdz6tV0w= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6000:1ac6:: with SMTP id i6mr5671886wry.373.1641942168979; Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:02:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Douglas McIlroy Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:02:32 -0500 Message-ID: To: TUHS main list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: [TUHS] =?utf-8?q?=28no_subject=29?= X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > Ken and Dennis were teaching [the Votrax] to swear "Speak" being a phonetics-based program, I suspect they were exploring multiple spellings. Out of context, lots of spellings were indistinguishable. For example, cheap, cheat, cheek, chief was hard to tell from cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.. At the risk of repeating myself, the fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck example came to the fore when a "speak" kiosk was installed at Epcot. PR folks were worried that people would try it on bad words in this public setting and asked me to block them. I said I'd block whatever words they told me to. Duly, I was sent a list--on the letterhead of an AT&T vice president. (Was that dictated to a secretary?) Later I heard that girls would often try friends' names, while boys would try bad words and exclaim that the machine didn't know them. In fact, those were among the few words the machine *did* know. Fortunately nobody ever complained that I hadn't blocked misspellings. Doug