The AI Engine

Hey, it was appropriate, I mean, what is to fear of rocks with a hoovercraft full of eels?

very true, but by all that's logical it shouldn't have tripped that switch. And I can't claim the credit for coincidence (Nor even the original writing credit, it was from Monty Python's 'Hungarian phrasebook' sketch originally, albeit I did put it into German when I ran out of Schiller to stuff BJ with

This Tobbacchonist ees scratched And: My nipples are explodink

*rubs crystal ball* I predict that Brother Jerome will shortly be announcing that "Dieses Tabakladen wird verkratzt!" und "Meinen Brustwarzen explodieren mit Freude!" at random points in his conversation

[breast-warts! Yegods - doesn't the inelegance of that idiom tell you all you need to know about German culture?!?! Either that or Monty Python had a hand in compiling my dictionary!] Hmm, Entschuldigen Sie bitte, mein Herr, Ihren Lederhosen wund meinen Brustwarzen reiben...

I am tring to figure why Brother Jerome's statement triggered "white".?

Brother Jerome: when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew ch.6 v.7
Bildgesmythe: White is clean and pretty like snow and marshmallos.

It's the chapter and verse ref at the end that's doing it. I just popped it into debug, and the anagramiser circuits are clearly turning "Matthew" + the "i" from the italic tag into "white meat". I thought reasonably common personal names were supposed to be recognised? Maybe not, or it's just a side-effect of the recent problems...

the response it came up with was also from Matthew - see end:

New Sentence: ' when thou pray , enter into they closet , and when thou _hast_ shut they door , pray to they Father which is in secret , and they Father which seethe in secret shall reward thee openly , white meat chi , 6 very , 6/i '

I get some truly weird results out of debug with some of these. I'll try taking some of the italic tags off, and see it that improves things.

The AI Engine does some really weird stuff sometimes. Like turning "ultrapurple" into "last supper". It's nice when it corrects actual errors, but annoying when it can't recognize common words (or common words run together). *shrugs*

'white meat..um does it taste like chicken? Now I can see the ultrapurple to last supper...

well, the 'white meat' problem is officially cured. It might pick up on "blue" now, but at least not (I very much hope!) "blue meat".

Speaking of AI Engine quirks:

Talkie Toaster: It's my raison d'etre. I toast, therefore I am.
Sonora: Really? When did it get to be your garrison?

I could see "raisin" from "raison", but "garrison"???

...raison d'etre is French though, you can't expect the Engine to "know" everything... I wonder if it's even a borrowed expression in (US) English.

My objection on that one is that "raisin" is much closer to "raison" than "garrison". It seems like there ought to be a simplicity test on what the AI Engine turns things into. "change one letter" is a whole lot simpler than "move the a, add another r and a g" *shrugs*