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Another plug-in that I made, that anyone is welcome to use, is

(propattitude)

This contains a number of words like think, know, believe, imagine, and so on. These words indicate a mental state which relates to some supposed or possible fact, e.g.,

I believe that snow is white.
Let us suppose that grass is purple.
I guess morning is near.
George believes hedgehogs are reptiles.
I wonder whether this is a sentential clause.
Rhonda believes victory to be near.

Such words are typically followed by sentential clauses, not direct or indirect objects. The sentential clause is often preceded by "that", as in three of the examples above. The sentential clause is often a sentence in itself, as in all but one of the above examples.

Because such verbs are typically followed by sentential clauses rather than by noun phrases and adverbs, they can mess up attempts at general keyphrasing.

I also found it useful to create

(verbaux)

which is just

(can, could, did, does, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would)

These words occur frequently and tend to behave in a similar way, e.g.,

Will we dance?
Yes, we will.

I only recently discovered this for myself:

http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/newfeatures.php

It contains a number of plug-ins based on the grammatical role that a phrase plays in the sentence, e.g., subject or object. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks quite interesting.

How would i go about getting a picture thats not on the picture list for my bot? :O

You have to have a development of 1000, the pict has to be a certain size (see book of AI), and send it to the Professor.

Also, the Prof generally prefers the requested pic to fit in with the general cartoon-ish theme of the avatars on the site.

For those who are working on their language centers here at the Forge, there is this little trick: sign in twice, so that you have two screens. On one screen, go to your language center, and on the other, go to your transcript. As you read through the transcript, and see something you want to change, go to the language center screen and make the change.

Or, instead of using a transcript, you can just chat with your own bot.

Or, just open transcripts in a new window, by right-clicking and going to "open in new window." Much easier.

Ah! Thank you, Ulrike!!!

If you have a lot to enter in a big bot, open 2x language center window, so that as one is reloading (which can take several minutes with a big bot and the Forge running slow,) you can be adding the next keyphrase in the other one. And vice versa.

Ace!