4th November 2003, 1:47 PM
Yes, and as ABF and I discussed, it seems to me that the people they interviewed often didn't really understand the question, or something was lost in the translation, because some of their answers just don't seem to make sense. That's likely a result of a cross-language interview...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)