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<div>At a slant and seemingly close though not entirely the same as the current interesting discussion of "rudeness" online, the energetic exchanges in some ways reminisce on discussion of <u>automated parsers</u>
for "rant" and other 'speech acts' parsers that would capture and perhaps intervene under some sort of quasi e-penal code, juridcially...</div>
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<div>There are more than 2 questions involved. But 2 of them are: whether to build, how to build.</div>
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<div>One augurs that the whether side is an issue core to <strong>ICT2ALL</strong> and challenges us as to democracy (maybe). The second is one of ingenuity and business case. People work on either or both in any text capture system: the principle and the practice.
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<div>Pendulums swing, swing .... swing, historically. The current description of "rant" in Wikipedia is itself interesting for the sense of social uncertainty, to wit (and forgive the initial shouting title preserved for decorous emphasis via cut-and-paste low tech availment):
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<p>A rant is a purely emotion driven speech or piece of writing that has been sparked by something so emotionally or intellectually jarring that one ignores any notion of making a well researched and calm argument. A rant directly attacks an idea, person or institution, often making few tangible claims and broad, possibly personal, attacks upon the target
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<div>Cordial-weekend regards, Cordial weekend-regards,</div>
<div>and there's much to disagree with (or not) above.</div>
<div>LDMF.</div>
<div><br><font size="1">-- <br>Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D.<br>N.B.: This post is my personal view, not necessarily representing an organizational one.<br>For I.D. only here:<br>Internal Disability ICT Taskforce.<br>
Respectful Interfaces* - Communications Coordination Committee For The United Nations; CCC/UN Board Member and Secretary; Chr., Online Committee..<br>Vita Summary: <tbp>.<br>ARPANet, CSNet, Vnet, Internet, other Affiliations on Request.
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