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- From: mswing@lonestar.utsa.edu (Michael S. Wingfield)
- Subject: Re: Analysing Text Re: 18-year-olds at Mt Allison Uni
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.015832.981@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Followup-To: Ripley's Believe it or Not
- Keywords: AI
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:58:32 GMT
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- >
- >[eyes bug out] Ivan, you _can't_ be serious!? I thought the flames
- >directed at Mt. Allison were ridiculous enough, but wanting to
- >analyze their writing for author authenticity takes the cake. If
- >you're just kidding around, nice approach, but if you're serious ...
- >this .. oh, gosh, nevermind. I can't even believe anyone would want
- >to invest their time doing something so unimportant to most of the
- >users in this group anyhow.
- >
- >Cari
- >Boulder, CO
- Yep...analyzing the linquistic syntex of certain letters is authentic. I'm
- currently a student of Criminal Justice, studying Law Enforcement and
- Criminal Forensics, and I can tell you from a past experience of mine in
- an Investigations/Forensics class, that what Ivan wants to do is not
- ridiculous, but very serious, and is an accepted practice in investigations.
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- Miko "the man investigating the Elvis appearances" *grin*
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