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Quoting John McCain? Lols

“Of course, hate speech that is likely to incite imminent criminal acts is itself criminal and cannot be tolerated. However, that’s quite different from hate speech that is a simple statement of opinion.

Yiiiiiikes

Wouldn’t be an early 2000s book without the usage of slurs oh my god

“”…the way one pronounced a word in standard Italian and the way one spells that word is much closer to a one-to one relationship than it is in English. The concept of a spelling bee in Italy would be ridiculous.”

LOL

I completely forgot people used to do that

“Indeed, language discrimination is tolerated by people who would never tolerate discriminatory remarks based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or many other characteristics.”

“Language is not a monolith, nor can it be, nor should it be, given the complexity of culture and the fact that language is the fabric of culture. Some of us are more eloquent than others, and all of us have moments of greater or lesser eloquence. However, that range of eloquence is found in every language, every dialect, and every variety of speech.”

I said I would finish this a week ago, picked it up, and immediately fell asleep oops

We are finishing this book today and moving on

“…now more than fifty years after Turing made his claim we still have not come up with a program that allows a computer to participate like a human in a conversation.”

Considering this was written in 2008 and released in 2010, insane that it took 13+ years to defy the statement above