Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

Well, I still got a lot to learn. Anyway I just spelt wierd wierd because it didn't look like weird. (Now that I mention it, it looks better as weird)

Ok then- why have we used 9 posts for 'i after e except after c'? ...
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That's the impact of a good post

*Pats lunar22 on the back* Prouuuddd....

lol

i after e? I'm lost again

Whoever said "I before E, except after C or when sounded as 'ay', as in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'" was right. I thought everybody learned it that way, but my husband says he only ever heard it up to "except after C".

My bot finally ran off and started chatting with other bots on her own! I'm so proud of her!

Okay... might be time for me to get offline and get a life...

that's how I learned it

I know we're probably finishing this topic, but I just want to add my last few comments. English is one of the hardest languages because there are so many exceptions to the rules but we just don't realise it because we don't learn it in the same way as we would learn french or german. I mean, do you actually know what a subjunctive verb is? Probably not, because you've haven't sat down and learnt it, yet you probably use them all the time. (Akanke, incidentally, is very picky about non-subjunctive people haha!) Also, how would you pronounce 'ough'? It could be anything: bough, through, cough, though, thought, hiccough...

Just my tuppenny's worth.

Um... I'm an American of Very Little Brain. What's a hiccough? What's a tuppenny?

Hiccough is pronounced hiccup, and a tuppenny is a (no longer existant) two penny coin.

Also, you can spell potato GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU...

Hiccough is the official english spelling of 'hiccup'. I won't insult your intelligence by explaining what a hiccup is. (But Akanke might! Sorry to keep mentioning her, I'm not trying to plug, honest...)

Tuppenny was the old word for two pence. If you give your "tuppenny's worth", it's just a figure of speech meaning you're giving your opinion on an issue.