Sunday, December 19, 2010

there's a difference?

Wikipedia defines a chomskybot as:
"...a program that generates paragraphs which appear similar to those in the corpus of Noam Chomsky's linguistic works, but are humorously devoid of any meaning, by combining at random phrases taken from Chomsky's actual works."
Of course, this refers only to the computer-based chomskybots. Carbon-based chomskybots (that infect the comments of many political blogs) differ from their silicon-based siblings in these ways:
  1. they parrot chomsky's political (rather than linguistic) babblings,
  2. they are more annoying,
  3. they actively (rather than passively) resist factual evidence, and
  4. they make far less sense.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Chomsky is devoid of meaning; Chomskybot is humorously devoid of meaning.