From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Oct 11 09:57:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 40864 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2007 16:57:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (69.147.108.202) by m48.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Oct 2007 16:57:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net) (69.17.117.3) by mta3.grp.re1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2007 16:57:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 3887 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2007 16:57:53 -0000 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Oct 2007 16:57:53 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ig1M5-0005lG-0h for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:57:50 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ig1LR-0005fg-Im; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:57:12 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ig1K9-0005fJ-MV for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:55:50 -0700 Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.92]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ig1K3-0005ew-OP for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:55:49 -0700 Received: from mailgate.denbridgemarine.com ([83.104.25.50]) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.67) id 1Ig1Jy-000390-Eh; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:55:39 +0000 Received: from strontium.elements (support.denbridgemarine.com [83.104.25.51]) (using SSLv3 with cipher EXP1024-RC4-SHA (56/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mailgate.denbridgemarine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA7752778; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:36 +0100 (BST) Organization: Denbridge Marine Ltd Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:55:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <470E30C3.8030309@ropine.com> In-Reply-To: <470E30C3.8030309@ropine.com> Cc: lojban@solipsys.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710111755.43448.colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 13877 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 69.17.117.3 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Colin Wright From: Colin Wright Reply-To: colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com Subject: [lojban] Re: OT: Harvard scientists predict the future of the past tense X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=EE3RjuH4olmf6-XzPa-6UK5P3CIhOcJS1GLPF-5P5Xj7-h4t2g X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 28353 >> Many of you might be interested in this, found on Slashdot. >> Mathematical analysis of English texts over the past several hundred >> years yielded a predictive model of verb regularization. > > Who'da thunk it? Indeed. I'm having considerable success in convincing people to use a regular past tense of "u". Past tense of "think" is "thunk", of "click" is "cluck" and of "print" is "prunt". I've now heard second generation usage ... On a more serious note, the interest in the original is the accuracy of the quantitative predictions. -- Dr C.D.Wright, Director of Innovation and Engineering Denbridge Marine Limited, Cammell Lairds Waterfront Park, Campbeltown Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41 9HP. Tel: +44 (0)151 649 4080 Fax: +44 (0)870 051 8953 Mob: +44 (0)7980 57 22 96 Denbridge Marine Limited may monitor email traffic data and the content of email for the purposes of security and staff training. Denbridge Marine Limited. Registered in England and Wales, Company Number 4850477 Registered office: DSG, 43 Castle St, Liverpool. L2 9TL. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.