Subject: Re: typo or spelling error in handouts

> 
> >>
> >>       The titles of slides 2-21 thru 2-30 say "Speach Synthesis".  There is
> >> no such word as "speach"; I think you mean "speech".
> >
> >You are right.
> >
> >> (I'm not sure if this is
> >> a typo or a spelling error.)
> >
> >If you had paid attention in class you would
> >have heard me appologize for the typo.
> 
> But what if you really meant "Peach Synthesis"? And how can we simulate
> fruit in Prolog? Will this be in the exam? Can we get some extra notes for
> this? Are there any previous exam papers with questions on Prolog fruit
> simulations? Do we need to know about citrus fruit as well as stone fruit?
> Can we get an extension of our fruit quota?
> 
> Demanding an answer to a very serious question,

You have a point, NZ being an agricultural nation, etc. 
I guess I could call you a bunch of fruit-cakes, but that
would be politically incorrect, I guess. On the other hand,
it could also have been "Leech Synthesis", and I could
have called you slimy, blood-sucking, and neurologically-challenged...

Exam pressure is getting to all of us, obviously. (I just
got two calls from the Exam Office, complaining about
the layout of the 330 exam).

I think I might have told you that I just can't spell; not in 
my native tongue, and certainly not in English. My third
grade teacher told me (regarding my penmanship and spelling),
that it was lucky that one day I would probably have a 
secretary to do my writing for me... How wrong she was...

/CC

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