[7411] in SIPB bug reports
Re: what fucking thesaurus is this?!@@#
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Nov 17 07:37:50 1999
Message-Id: <199911171237.HAA03559@well.mit.edu>
To: Niko Suave <niko@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Nov 1999 01:59:59 -0500."
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:37:44 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Niko Suave <niko@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> #541. Learner.-- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice,
>prentice; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, abecedarian, alphabetarian;
>alumnus, eleve.
[...]
>athena% webster alphabetarian
>No definition for 'alphabetarian'.
I propose the following hypothesis:
The set of words known/used by the the program "webster"
is not identical to the set of words known/used by the
completely unrelated program "thesaurus".
Experimental tests may be capable of probing the truth of this
proposed hypothesis.
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
