Thursday, September 7th 2006

Microsoft Patents Verb Conjugations.

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zekrahminator
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Or a system of conjugating verbs, more accurately.
The technique, which is a favourite in English language text books, allows the user to input the infinitive form or non-infinitive forms of a verb. When a user inputs a non-infinitive form of a verb, the verb conjugating system identifies a corresponding base form of the verb.
The original system was invented by Eric Voetberg, Jinson Yu, Mark Stumpf and Robert Parkin.
Source: TheINQ
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10 Comments on Microsoft Patents Verb Conjugations.

#1
W2hCYK
wtf? what?? lol..
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#2
spectre440
W2hCYKwtf? what?? lol..
agreed. what the bloody hell is this supposed to be?
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#3
Jimmy 2004
spectre440agreed. what the bloody hell is this supposed to be?
I third that.
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#4
Dark Ride
Anyone cares to explain this ?
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#5
W1zzard
ok conjugating is:

go:
i go
you go
he/she/it goes
we go
you go
they go

now the $1B question is whats so special about doing this?
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#6
Jimmy 2004
I thought it did that anyway? Oh well, my grammar is normally good enough for that and I tend to use M$ word anyway. Sure open source will find another way to do it.
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#7
zekrahminator
McLovin
...Next time I see stupid news like this, I think I'll take it to general nonsense :laugh:.
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#9
Thermopylae_480
Lol, ok. I get it. It's part of Office's grammar check system. You might want to clear that up, it sounds like Microsoft is trying to patent the english language.
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#10
W2hCYK
thats exactly what i thought. I thought they were trying to patent already made words and grammar rules. hahaha..
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