It never ends. Here’s an effort by Microsoft to patent a “Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb.” The first claim reads:
1. A method in a computer system for conjugating verbs in a target language, the method comprising: receiving a verb in a base language; identifying verb forms in the target language using a translation of the received verb from the base language to the target language; and displaying the identified verb forms in the target language.
What would Cicero say?!
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Cicero would say whatever we licensed him to say. Otherwise he would keep his big yap shut, if he knew what was good for him.
I know what Cicero said, but I can’t repeat it here because his descendents have an eternal copyright on it.
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