Comments on: Garden Path Sentences http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/ Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:56:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paul Butler http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-111 Paul Butler Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:55:49 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-111 Hmm, cool, I'll look into that. I should have though of checking wp-plugins.. I guess I was just looking for an excuse to move to another blogging platform :). Leonardo (http://jtauber.com/leonardo/) seems to be almost exactly what I'm looking for, actually (it even supports TeX and syntax highlighting). Hmm, cool, I’ll look into that. I should have though of checking wp-plugins.. I guess I was just looking for an excuse to move to another blogging platform :). Leonardo (http://jtauber.com/leonardo/) seems to be almost exactly what I’m looking for, actually (it even supports TeX and syntax highlighting).

]]> By: Rajesh Kumar http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-110 Rajesh Kumar Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:19:01 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-110 I'm pretty sure there's a plugin for wordpress that can do LaTeX. Try this one: http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/, which implements a nice wrapper over http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html Similarly, if you look carefully enough through http://wp-plugins.net/, I'm sure you'd find one for syntax highlighting as well. My very own blog, meetrajesh.com, does LaTeX rendering, PHP syntax highlighting using PHP's built-in highlight_string(), AND chemical reaction and equation notation, which is just LaTeX at the end of the day. See http://www.meetrajesh.com/archive_2005_06.html#testing.txt for an example. Sorry because my comments are getting way off-topic from the original blog post. I do like the garden path sentences generated by your Python script though. Many hours of free linguistic entertainment! I’m pretty sure there’s a plugin for wordpress that can do LaTeX. Try this one: http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/, which implements a nice wrapper over http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html

Similarly, if you look carefully enough through http://wp-plugins.net/, I’m sure you’d find one for syntax highlighting as well.

My very own blog, meetrajesh.com, does LaTeX rendering, PHP syntax highlighting using PHP’s built-in highlight_string(), AND chemical reaction and equation notation, which is just LaTeX at the end of the day. See http://www.meetrajesh.com/archive_2005_06.html#testing.txt for an example.

Sorry because my comments are getting way off-topic from the original blog post. I do like the garden path sentences generated by your Python script though. Many hours of free linguistic entertainment!

]]> By: Paul Butler http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-109 Paul Butler Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:39:23 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-109 Rejesh, yeah, but the weird thing is, Firefox spellcheck works fine with GMail's styled text input. And I agree, WordPress's tag stripping is a bit stupid. I haven't been too happy with WordPress in general over the last little while; if I had the time I would port my blog over to another system that is better for my needs. Something with syntax highlighting and LaTeX rendering would be cool, I might end up putting one together myself if I have to. Rejesh, yeah, but the weird thing is, Firefox spellcheck works fine with GMail’s styled text input.

And I agree, WordPress’s tag stripping is a bit stupid. I haven’t been too happy with WordPress in general over the last little while; if I had the time I would port my blog over to another system that is better for my needs. Something with syntax highlighting and LaTeX rendering would be cool, I might end up putting one together myself if I have to.

]]> By: Rajesh Kumar http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-108 Rajesh Kumar Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:15:24 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-108 Yikes! My previous comment makes no sense since wordpress stripped all the HTML tags! Wordpress should be doing a htmlspecialchars(), not a strip_tags() on comments! Yikes! My previous comment makes no sense since wordpress stripped all the HTML tags! WordPress should be doing a htmlspecialchars(), not a strip_tags() on comments!

]]> By: Rajesh Kumar http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-107 Rajesh Kumar Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-107 Yeah, Firefox does not do spell check on fields, only on 's. I really don't know why. They should at least do it for style text boxes. Bad idea to do it for text boxes since I could tell if someone's password is in the dictionary if it doesn't show a swigly line as I'm watching over him, and then try to brute force it later. Yeah, Firefox does not do spell check on fields, only on ‘s. I really don’t know why. They should at least do it for style text boxes. Bad idea to do it for text boxes since I could tell if someone’s password is in the dictionary if it doesn’t show a swigly line as I’m watching over him, and then try to brute force it later.

]]> By: Paul Butler http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-104 Paul Butler Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:33:47 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-104 Ben, thanks for the heads up on the spelling. I just assumed that FireFox would go ahead and underline the misspelled words in the WordPress dashboard like it does on other text fields and WYSIWYG inputs. Embarrassingly, this is not the case. Btw, I can't wait to see micropledge launch. Ben, thanks for the heads up on the spelling. I just assumed that FireFox would go ahead and underline the misspelled words in the WordPress dashboard like it does on other text fields and WYSIWYG inputs. Embarrassingly, this is not the case.

Btw, I can’t wait to see micropledge launch.

]]> By: Ben Hoyt http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-106 Ben Hoyt Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:59:28 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-106 That first sentence -- "The complex houses married and single students and their families" -- was amazing. It took me about 5 attempts to parse it. And good work on gardenpath.py -- that sort of thing's always fun. I quite liked this one, "Her correspondent buffers shot frequencies". (BTW, "sentances" is spelt "sentences". :-) That first sentence — “The complex houses married and single students and their families” — was amazing. It took me about 5 attempts to parse it. And good work on gardenpath.py — that sort of thing’s always fun. I quite liked this one, “Her correspondent buffers shot frequencies”. (BTW, “sentances” is spelt “sentences”. :-)

]]> By: Marti Hearst http://paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentences/#comment-105 Marti Hearst Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:35:01 +0000 http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/garden-path-sentances/#comment-105 This is a great first attempt at this problem! Getting the meanings to really line up is the hard part. This is a great first attempt at this problem! Getting the meanings to really line up is the hard part.

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