oh, the chaos!

[khedron]

A small bit of blog-hopping led me to a page about "The Chaos", a poem which demonstrates, among other things, why speech recognition is hard. It turns out it's much longer than I'd thought, and I'd only seen the beginning of it:

Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
   I will teach you in my verse
   Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
   Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
   Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

Update: "Made has not the sound of bade," -- oops. Really?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

_This_ is why I don't teach little kids. I want them coming to me knowing how to read already.