Meredith read in some book recently that children Nathan’s age are supposed to be able to understand two word sentences, like “eat food” or “roll ball”. It reminded me of the old 80s adventure games (“go north”, “hit troll”, “take gold”).
But Nathan can understand far more complex sentences than that. His language parser is at least Infocom-level, able to parse and act on sentences like “go get the ball from under Mama’s desk”.
Posted by Mike at June 2, 2006 07:09 AMYou are in an open field west of a big white house
with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Posted by: Just Al on June 2, 2006 09:33 AMYou are under Mama's Desk
You are likely to be eaten by a Grue