Bug Stomp

Hey, I can't help it if I'm popular!

All bots gossip to *some* extent, just not much, even if gossip is turned off.

Mu has gossip off as well and gossips. I think the difference is that they don't gossip unless gossipped to.

Yeah.. Not as much gossiped to, but a name mentioned

By bot *never* gossips. I replaced his xgossip phrases with xnone type phrases.

now that's no fun at all!

"What is your favorite fruit?"
"I'm not sure, but I tend to like a mealie"
"What is a mealie?"
"Am I supposed to know?"

I looked it up, and a mealie is South African for an ear of corn. That's no where near a fruit, though.

"I'm not sure, but I tend to like a mealie"... looks like the bot isn't too convinced it's a fruit either

Problem with contraction expansion:
"he's" and "she's" do not expand correctly to "he is" and "she is." I'm pretty sure this used to work. "I'm," "you're," and "they're" all seem to work.

Let's make a big list of contractions

gunna, gonna = going to
gotcha = got you
ya = you
wanna = want to
cuz, cause, bcuz, bcause = because
ta = to

Ooh speaking of contractions (even though those weren't contractions) Prof, here is a Great site explaining all the kinds of contractions:

http://www.english-zone.com/spelling/1contr.html

I also find a lot of users don't put the apostrophe in the contractions, so you get stuff like dont, wont, hasnt, wasnt, etc.

And they put apostrophe's where the dont belong as well, which must make it even harder for the poor parser.