[[lug] DSL, static IPs and the hunt for red october.]

[Duke Smith]

Chris -

Thanx for the excellent humor. BTW, as an amateur linguistics
junkie, I'm curious as to what parser (manual, software?) you
used? Reminds me of when I used BNF to model DesCarte's
"proof" of the existence of Gog.

Happy Parsing!

- duke

Chris Riddoch wrote:

> Duke Smith <duke at firstworld.net> writes:
>
> > Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> >
> > > Short form: It seems Duke is admitting that people wanting IPs today can't
> > > get them for $35, as he implied earlier, and that the numbers he based
> > > his calculation of gorging by ISPs for IP addresses.
> >
> > 1) This isn't even a sentence.
>
> As much as I hate to join a good flamewar, this is just too tempting
> on a Saturday morning with little better to do. (Yes, I'm stalling.)
>
> (S (INT "Short Form:") (NP "It")
>    (VP (V "seems")
>     (COMP "that"
>       (NP "Duke")
>       (VP "is admitting"
>         (COMP "that"
>           (NP
>             (N "people")
>             (ADJP
>               (ADJ "wanting")
>               (N "IPs")
>               (ADJ "today")))
>           (VP "can't get"
>             (NP "them")
>             (ADVP
>               (ADV "for")
>               (NP (N "$35")))
>             (COMP "as"
>                (NP "he")
>                (VP "implied")
>                (ADVP
>                  (ADV "earlier"))))
>         (COMP "and that"
>           (NP
>             (DET "the")
>             (N "numbers")
>             (ADJP
>                (ADJ "on which")
>                (NP (N "he"))
>                (VP "based"
>                   (NP (N "his calculations of gorging by ISPs for IP addresses")))))
>           (VP (*))))))))
>
> It seems the last clause lacks a verb phrase, but it's fairly easy to
> fill in that blank.  I may have parsed something wrong, but I believe
> I got the significant structures right.
>
> > 2) I neither said nor implied (you inferred) anything of the kind
>
> I haven't followed the thread, so I won't bother to say whether I
> think every claim in this sentence is accurate, but I did notice that
> the main verb in the sentence is "seems".  Whether anything "seems" or
> not can really be a matter of opinion, unless someone would like to
> argue epistemology with me, which might make for a good Sunday morning
> post in itself.
>
> This waste of time has been brought to you by me (a linguistics and
> linux geek) the letter 'G', and the number '7'.  Thank you.
>
> --
> Chris Riddoch
> socket at peakpeak.com
>
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