Bug Stomp

But very helpful when it's not.

...so lower your 'are you' rating

Prof I really like all the improvements you have made.

I second that, ladydyke! It's all too easy to take the Professor for granted, not to mention nagging him for reforms (who, me?). But actually, it is quite remarkable what he is able to accomplish! There are a huge number of features in this operation! And any program dealing with natural language (e.g., English, the worst of them all as far as I know) has got to be hairier than Halley's Comet! And he does all this for us for free! What a remarkable individual!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

I didn't know Halley's Comet had hair.

Professor:

I replied to both your messages, and tried your icon twice. I'm just posting this in case none of them made it through.

Eugene:

Well, the word "comet" comes from the Latin word for "hair." I guess the ancients thought that what we call the "tail" of the comet looked like hair (blowing in the solar wind! Of course they didn't have the idea of the solar wind. Well, probably someone did, actualy. Anyway.) So this "hair" extends thousands or even millions (?) (any astronomers here?) of miles -- that's a lot of hair!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Verb replacement is using some strange conjugations:

Julie Tinkerbell: Akanke is really bully. Have you met her?
Frizella: have I ranned into? Hmmm. What an interesting question. Why do you want to know?

I have no idea where either of these responses came from. There's nothing in Cricon's language centre that would put any of this together. She mentions mini-me in one phrase but that's about it. I'm really confused.

xx: Not much here. WHat have you been doing?
Cricon: I have been a percussion.

xx: So where should we go for our honey moon?
Cricon: I like mini me.

The first might be put in by the prof, the second should read I like you, or it's a memory of an earlier convo...

tai- the I like mini-me comment is an x-emote positive. In x-emotes "you" will sometimes change to a name of a bot about whom your bot feels that way. If you have any responses where you don't want that to happen, you can put a bracket around your [you], like that.

I'm not sure what the first one is, unless it's a funny type-of that was (as lunar22 suggests) added by the Professor.

Thanks ezzer and lunar22. I just checked Cricon's friends page... and lo and behold 'mini-me' is a bot friend of hers
Thanks for your help, guys!