Thanks! I hadn't even thought about that connection. I was in the middle of other stuff and just tossed up the little post on the Siri story and have been kind of wondering about the broader story behind it ever since.
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
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In this skit from the BBC Scotland comedy show "Burnistoun," an elevator's voice-recognition technology is similarly foiled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ
(From 2010, I think.)
Thanks! I hadn't even thought about that connection. I was in the middle of other stuff and just tossed up the little post on the Siri story and have been kind of wondering about the broader story behind it ever since.
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