Yet another boring blog in english.

When traveling, the author of this blog use to communicate mostly English and, as long as the other people know some simple sentences, it had never been a problem... with the single exception of London, maybe. The author had several problems there to buy bus tickets, but he's not sure the employee was able to pronounce any other vowel but O.

Although it may be not perfect, the author of this blog feels quite confident on having certain proficiency on it.

However, according with Academia, even though the author is proficient in conversational English, he do know how to write not. To them, all English should follow the "main idea. Explanation." pattern for each written paragraph, in a 4-tuple of {Intoduction, argument, counter-argument, conclusion}, having each sentence no more than 20 words --unless strictly necessary--, and avoiding subordinates as much as possible. That's the way science, the literature for the world's brightest minds, must be written. The author don't see a Ferrary limiting itself to 20km/h or a CAT truck asking to be loaded under half a ton.

At this point the reader probably have guessed the author is not (always) following that schema, nor he (totally) agrees with it. The author finds it as a good guideline but also restrictive and reductionist since not all ideas can be presented that way. To him, the human mind is capable of understanding more than that. In that sense, this blog may prove useful, giving him freedom to explain his ideas without minding those constrains. the point is not to write another boring paper in english, but a (yes, must probably boring) blog in english... with a little bit of humor.

Such explanations should be unnecessary since the author expects none to read this and knows nobody cares about his research. However, the research conducted is related to language understanding. People don't use to follow the rules for writing a nice paper for the JUNICS (Journal of Useless Nonsenses and Incomprehensible Complex Stuff) academic journal in daily life, but the most efficient way to communicate a message. Same must apply to machines, it must be them who adapt to the way humans communicate and not otherwise.

This entry will remain here as a reminder that the author must not get stuck into a writing pattern, but understand language as something that changes over time.