changeset 100013:e7072eb5c038

(Dissociated Press): Minor cleanups.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:41:27 +0000
parents cf5da10f146c
children ffb234dea675
files doc/emacs/misc.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/emacs/misc.texi	Fri Nov 28 15:40:38 2008 +0000
+++ b/doc/emacs/misc.texi	Fri Nov 28 15:41:27 2008 +0000
@@ -2677,7 +2677,7 @@
 gibberish, it insists on a certain amount of overlap between the end of
 one run of consecutive words or characters and the start of the next.
 That is, if it has just output `president' and then decides to jump
-to a different point in the file, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon'
+to a different point in the buffer, it might spot the `ent' in `pentagon'
 and continue from there, producing `presidentagon'.@footnote{This
 dissociword actually appeared during the Vietnam War, when it was very
 appropriate.  Bush has made it appropriate again.}  Long sample texts
@@ -2699,9 +2699,9 @@
 chain based on a frequency table constructed from the sample text.  It
 is, however, an independent, ignoriginal invention.  Dissociated Press
 techniquitously copies several consecutive characters from the sample
-between random choices, whereas a Markov chain would choose randomly
-for each word or character.  This makes for more plausible sounding
-results, and runs faster.
+text between random jumps, unlike a Markov chain which would jump
+randomly after each word or character.  This makes for more plausible
+sounding results, and runs faster.
 
 @cindex outragedy
 @cindex buggestion