It is difficult to provide computers with expectancies because they don’t have all the cultural scripts and routines.
Although you can be sure, a computer could not predict whether the next words would be “Stick-em-up”, or “Do you know how to load this pistol?”
In the picture to the right (Please switch to the graphics version.), you know they are talking about divorce and not about taking the kids to the movies. Computers don’t have the scripts to help them decode these nuances of word meaning.
It is this knowledge of the routines and scripts of a language that ties culture so closely to the development of language.
This would be one of the hardest things for a foreigner to learn about a new language.
We will now look at concepts-- and how they develop.
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