On 05/09/2014 02:44 AM, Susan Kane wrote:
> Obviously, we must now task someone in CODE4LIB with writing a Python
> script to convert New Zealand English to International English.

Yes, because tasking people with AI-complete programming tasks (see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete ) is only slightly worse than 
systematically malfunctioning sarcasm filters.

> Or, I guess we could solve this on the user side with a sarcasm filter or a
> humor pipe, but you might lose some data that way.

Or we could acknowledge code4lib's role as a safe place for people to 
tune their sarcasm detectors.

cheers
stuart