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Re: Kennaway on speaker's intent
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- Subject: Re: Kennaway on speaker's intent
- From: cbmvax!uunet!dino.ulowell.edu!gryphon (Coranth)
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 91 17:55:55 EDT
coi. rodo.
Written by (pro-angmar!steffan@alfalfa.com) Steven Mesnick :
> It's as though I prefixed an implied "Do what I
> really want you to do when I ask the following question:", sort of a Do
> What I Mean command. So the answer, in a logical language, to the question
> "Do you have the time" is "Yes, I do" or "No I don't". The answer to "DWIM:
> Do you have the time?"
That would make a neat member of lexeme UI, the "DWIM" attitudinal.
co'orodo.
mi'e korant.