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.... so does this mean he's learning to be more human, or mereley getting sloppy when it comes to learning his lines...?
when they're all in the cave, he tells the kid: 'go! IT'S safer there!'
well, well.....
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In "Encounter at Farpoint" he made the remark, "At least we're acquainted with the judge."
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Oh my god... are we going end up nitpicking Troi's fashion each season then?
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I always thought those red bead things in her hair in the pilot looked like bugs.....
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Data used contractions quite a bit, especially before "Datalore". Maybe it's a function of getting his emotion chip working, then mysteriously not using it.
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Not that it made any sense anyway. Why on earth couldn't he use contractions?
IF speech = "* could not *" THEN replace with "couldn't"
Obviously I can't program to save my life, but you get the idea. T'was silly.
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Yah. He also could've gotten around it by simply making an "nnnt" sound after saying "could". "I'm not using a contraction," says Data to his programming. "I'm just stringing sounds together." Which is all speech is anyway. And even Speak and Spells can string sounds together.
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Mabye data has several faux pas moments with contaractions and decided to eliminate them from his programing...along with slang, which seems to have been abolished prior to TNG.
Mabye he made a vow to his ailing pal Geordi: "I will not use a single contraction untill you get laid."
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That was the implication. Lore said Soong had to make Data "less perfect" to satisfy the inhabitant's whining. The lack of emotions and nerd-speak seemed to be some of the ways that Soong tried to satisfy that. The problem is, The writers (or the directors) evidently didn't know about that until the episode was written.
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