in their broad outlines
approach
a great deal in common
In their broad outlines, in their basic principles and even in the way they approach certain specific problems of communication, languages have a great deal in common.
linguistic unit
infinite
well-formed
grammatical
A basic property of human language is its creative aspect -- a speaker's ability to combine the basic linguistic units to form an infinite set of 'well-formed',or grammatical,sentences.
complex - intricacy
Even the most complicated computer man has yet built can't compare in intricacy with the brain. Computer switches and components number in the thousands rather than in the billions.
approach
Long before we approach a computer as complex as our brain, we will perhaps build a computer that is at lest complex enough to design another computer more complex than itself
a devil's bargain
capacity
deapression
Medical technology offers us in many cases a devil's bargain: longer life, but with reduced mental capacity; freedom from deapression together with freedom from creativity or spirit.
subtle aspects
human aging
figured out
rigid
fix in one's view The only problem is that there are many subtle aspects of human aging that the biotech industry hasn't quite figured out how to fix:prople grow mentally rigid and increasingly fixed in their views as their age.
distributing
customer base
Financial institutions have put great emphasis on developing technology that will enable us to have the edage on our competitors in terms of analyzing the global information and distributing this to our customer base.
coverage
The growth in the number of independent news companies combined with improved telecommunication has led to a boom in the level of coverage of breaking news and drop in the cost of obtaining that information.
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