When I took an acting class on accents, I learned about the International Phonetic Alphabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipa). It is surprisingly handy, although most Americans have no idea it exists, much less how to read it.
Interesting. This is a very detailed effort, with encyclopaedic ambitions across different languages. The question is if there is a lightweight version of this - someway of chosing a reasonably small set of phonemes which can represent, most English words accurately. The second part is to represent the phonemes by either using a small number of new letters and diacritics (which is what the IPA already does), or to map the phonemes directly to single letters or a string of two or three letters. With the second option, there would still be ambiguity in reading a spelling (where are the phoneme breaks?). But, the accent situation would improve and one can get used to the phoneme boundaries by looking it up for each new word.
Suppose Alice and Bob are friends, and have each other in their contacts. Alice uses a simple, prepaid phone that only handles texts and calls. Bob has a smartphone.
Bob installs the Facebook app on his phone. The app wants permission to see his contacts, and he grants it. Maybe he's not paying attention, maybe there's a useful feature that needs his contacts, maybe the software asks the phone for permission, and the phone allows it without asking Bob. Whatever. Facebook now knows Alice's phone number.
When Alice gives Facebook her phone number to get a text (remember, that's all her phone can do), Facebook recognizes that it has seen this number before. Since Bob has this number, he is probably connected with Alice in some way.
Alice sees a recommendation for Bob when she logs on again.
Alice only gave permission for Facebook to text her. It didn't look through her phone at all.
> The app wants permission to see his contacts, and he
> grants it. Maybe he's not paying attention, maybe there's
> a useful feature that needs his contacts, maybe the
> software asks the phone for permission, and the phone
> allows it without asking Bob. Whatever. Facebook now
> knows Alice's phone number.
IIRC the app simply doesn't install if you don't grant the permissions.
Facebook doesn't find my real friends. Well, the phone I have attached is a prepaid card I haven't given to anyone and I have no real friends in my phony FB account, so I guess there's no way they can find me.
If I had an account with real data I wouldn't link my phone to it. Not any phone that my real connections know.
I figured as much. But my grandmother has no smartphone (nor have I), and nobody from the list of recommendations was directly connected to her. And there are people missing, even if the phone number matching was the only way. These two things are what I find weird.
But your two cousins, who may have smartphones, could both have your grandmother as a shared friend — and thus, since they were both connected to you and were connected to your grandmother, Facebook assumed you might know your grandmother?
Good idea, but I thought of that. They don't have my grandmother as shared friend (she's from the other "side" of the family as we call it, not sure if that's proper English).
When was all this? I just graduated from there last May. I didn't see a lot of this, but I also didn't look and fore the most part didn't socialize with people in my major. And I did avoid certain professors.
An airplane can easily go off course and (busses don't work too well off road), and hit anything, taking down large buildings and downtown areas. A bus could easily kill the 100 passengers and some nearby cars.
I graduated last May with a degree in CS. I had several friends who were Bio (Pre-Med). The math I was required to take started at a number higher than their highest math requirement. Likewise with statistics -- I saw some of their stat class work, and seemed like a joke to me. Incidentally, in my statistics course, we talked about how doctors don't (as shown by studies) grasp basic principles.
EDIT: I went to a fairly small, but locally very well respected school.
Newer varieties of fruit actually have much more sugar than many heritage breeds. I wouldn't go as far as to say you should avoid them, but that's probably not a valid argument against the rule.
