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Re: Android vs. Droid vs. Automaton (Re: 4x2ReVu: 7141 Naboo Fighter)
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:58:52 GMT
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James Wilson wrote in message ...
> Anyone else see the humor in debating the semantics of words used in a
> fictional account of events in "a galaxy far, far away" ? Maybe their
> English has a different OED than ours. Sheesh, they don't use "parsec" • right,
> either, but let's not go there....
I won't ask.
> > "JG" == Joseph Gonzalez <hsadm2.jgonzale@email.state.ut.us> writes:
> > JG> The problem I see with using these terms is that Webster's
> > JG> Dictionary defines android as "having human features" (which the
> > JG> R2 units definitely do not have). Consequently, one couldn't use
> > JG> the 'droid term either because it is just a contraction of the
> > JG> original term Android.
Not quite true, IMO. R2 has some human characteristics.
He hears and talks.
He walks.
He has excellent emotional programming.
These are features of humans, among other things.
Otherwise, he isn't very similar to humans.
> > 'If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashed...
> > ... Oh wait a minute, he already does...' - Anonymous
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Have fun!
John
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