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JirinPanthosa · January 11 2013, 02:39 AM

I think the writers they had around in the first season of TNG just really sucked.

In fact, pretty much every first season episode I actually liked has the Maurice Hurley writing credit.

I could write an NLP program that can use contractions. Heck, I could practically do it in one line of code. str.replace(/can not/g, 'can\'t).replace(/will not/g, 'won\'t').etc. Data can interpret the exact meaning of complex grammar. I think Soong could manage that one line of code.

January 11 2013, 02:39 AM	#11
JirinPanthosa Captain	Re: I think Data just doesn't LIKE to use contractions. I think the writers they had around in the first season of TNG just really sucked. In fact, pretty much every first season episode I actually liked has the Maurice Hurley writing credit. I could write an NLP program that can use contractions. Heck, I could practically do it in one line of code. str.replace(/can not/g, 'can\'t).replace(/will not/g, 'won\'t').etc. Data can interpret the exact meaning of complex grammar. I think Soong could manage that one line of code.