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A hobby of mine is tryng to determine people's origins by clues from the grammar/spelling of posts (ostensibly english). This should be automatable, making it easier to communicate (by allowing the user to switch from Australian to American or whatever, if they speak various dialects) or to avoid 'diplomatic'
incidents. (Is twosheds Australian? I MUST know..)
This may hinder your endeavours
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/ICML
(Shameless plug) [angel, Jul 17 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
RFR?
http://www.richards.../default.asp?S=2215
Doesn't say anything about dogs, though... [earl, Jul 19 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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This could be interesting - I sometimes do this with emails that have been forwarded on to me, where I don't know the author of the original message. |
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Sorry, bliss, I was being a retard and didn't get it until after I'd posted! |
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Australian? Ewe must be joking....mate. |
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AH-HA ! He's .... Welsh ? |
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There's something aboot this idea that I like, eh? |
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Well, it has a certain "je ne sais quoi". |
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There are packages designed to spot writing characteristics - that is how they identify new pieces as written by Shakespeare (or not). Presumably you could run those on the ideas and annotations here to spot regional patterns. (Probably turn out that everything is written by UnaBubba.) |
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"...everything is written by UnaBubba" You (UnaBubba) just write that so that we wouldn't think that everything is written by UnaBubba, since UnaBubba wouldn't reveal it if it were true ... unless he knows that we would realize that revealing it wouldn't fool us and therefore writes this anno afterwards to confuse us/himself. |
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My husband and I are wholly unacquainted with this UnaBubba person of whom you speak. |
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Sorry TwoSheds! (feeling sheepish) |
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So you're from New Zealand, then...? |
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ya'll are nuts. ya' can't tell a thing about a dude from the way they write. catfishbone. ;-) |
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What of you aren't here makin' a mudhole are busy stompin' it dry. |
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Wow!I had no idea you were from Roumania, reensure! |
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Fishbone. Not because it isn't a good idea but because it would take all of the fun out of the game. And, judging by the annos above, everyone seems to enjoy the game as it is. |
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I'm not one to piss on your leg and tell you "it's rainin". |
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No blissmiss, the piss is just a red herring. Note the dropped 'g'. |
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[rfr]: Are you Stan Richards? I'm trying to put all the pieces together... |
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hob, it's well known that the Scots (particularly Glaswegians) don't pronounce their g's. Added to reensure's anno on Ego Bell, I'd surmise that he's a hunchbacked camponologist from The Gorbals. Further given the preponderonce of letters from the left-hand side of the keyboard used in the name 'reensure', I would further add that he (and it's definitely he because a woman would never add a link to a pub on their profile page) is left-handed. Moreover, if the previous deductions are correct and reeinsure is, indeed Scottish, then the fact that he has never mentioned either Celtic or Rangers clearly indicates a rugby (union not league) supporter. Additionally, the fact that he didn't immediately add a comment on 'Pie Fritters' shows that he did not want to give himself away and is clearly of above average intelligence for a Glaswegian. Altogether, the evidence clearly reveals that reeinsure is the evil Professor Moriarty. It's all elementary my dear hob! |
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who then is Moriarty? Dr Bob. <wanders away to the nearest opium den, dazed and confused> |
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//[rfr]: Are you Stan Richards?// |
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who the hell is Stan Richards?
<<<muttering under breath>>>
Damn Canadians, they're as bad as Yankees....
<<<muttering under breath>>> |
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[rfr]: Oh, nevermind... I was just linking mentally some of the random personal information you've shared since I arrived on the HB (including on this page) and making a wild guess. You're a Southerner, and you manage(?) / run(?) / own(?) / are a senior person at(?) an advertising agency... |
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haven't been married to the same woman for 40 years <snicker> and don't have any kids other than the assortment of pets. Sold out the ad business 2? 3? 4? months ago (time flies)....now just have several restaurants which I've been avoiding since I moved....trying to break the workaholic mode and suffering from a midlife crisis. also currently losing my ass in the stock market. and how is your day going? oh, and I *really* do own part of a shrimpin' business.... |
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¯DrBob: ‘Eh? Me, from the land o‘the likes o‘that Mel Gibson? Bonny! Aye, but I takes o‘me chill on another shore … and on nary a finger the spirit be. |
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