Everybody gets the ad for free whether they want it or not ... everybody gets the music for free if they want it. If you stop thinking of music as the product, then music becomes the advertising. Music recordings aren't where you make the money, they bring in people to make the money with the product the music is advertising: the musician.
It's up to the musician to provide an experience outside of the prerecorded music tracks that fans will pay for. The prerecorded music tracks aren't the product.
To answer why this would fail the Turing Test, though, a computer program would likely be programmed to swap words based on actual consonants, not phonetic usage ... a human should know the difference between "wedding" and "writing" as a phonetic alliteration.
When you work on the next version of your program, be sure to check for "wr" and swap it out with "r" words, as the "w" sound is rarely emphasized in verbal usage.
Actually, I would drop the alliterative function from your program altogether, it's just stupid. And your random word ending replacement function could use a bunch of tweaking, like "-ore" to "-oar" just doesn't work visually.
"I was looking for a word that would fit in an alliteration sense with the same syllables as the word "writing.""
Alliteration are words with the same consonant used in succession. While those two words did begin with "w", it wasn't used in an alliterative sense. Additionally, since writing phonetically begins with an "r" sound, you chose the wrong phonetic replacement. "Reading, Writing, and Arithmatic" is an alliteration because of this reason.
Grammar fail.
And I still don't believe a person wrote those bullet points, because I can't believe there is a real living person stupid enough to write so horribly with absolutely no sense of proper English usage and meaning. It would shatter the minimum IQ threshold I believe a person would need to have to be self-aware.
That is the best analogy I think I've heard. The only argument I can think of against is that musicians want to make the commercials in your example, not the car. So the model requires commercializing the music into sellable goods while giving away what they really want to do.
Essentially, in the analogy, musicians are an ad agency with nothing to sell.
In addition, who wants to take on a wager with me that the time it takes for TechDirt's RSS feed to update with the latest content is about as long as it takes for the "Grammah Correction Specialist" to post?
I'm increasingly coming to the opinion that this is not an actual person writing these. I believe there is a program that is being run that takes a block of text and scans it for specific phrases and returns a set of results. So, where it sees words like "blatant", it always suggests "flagrant" as an alternative. The last handful of comments from this person have all been formatted the same way and have included almost identical wordings with poor formatting.
This reeks of a bot scanning the copy of the posts, returning a set of grammar suggestions based on keywords and regular expression string matching, and then automatically making the comment. I have a feeling no one is ever going to receive a reply to a comment left to one of these again.
There was a series of regular posts by this person earlier where that feels like the programmer was trying to figure out how TechDirt's comment system works while programming his bot to parse TechDirt's content and be able to automatically fill in comments linking to various junk sites. The programmer was probably collecting HTML field names, backwards engineering how the posting of comments works, and then fed this data into his bot.
Mike, I highly recommend you investigate this "person" for bot activity. Each comment includes a link, so it's likely all intended to generate seemingly relevant comments to sneak in spam links.
You really don't know anything about grammar. Not a single one of your points is relevant, and half of them are wrong. You don't even understand the difference between "it's" and "its" with your suggestion in #9. (Hint: "it's" is a contraction of "it is", while "its" is the possessive form for "it")
You do realize that TechDirt has the HTML nofollow tag added to links in the comments. So, while you're spamming the comment boards with bad grammar advice and worse spelling, the links you are adding are not going to do an ounce of good for Google rankings.
Not to mention your inability to understand basic grammar and blatant disregard for even attempting to spell anything correctly means no one reading your comments will take the links seriously.
So, Google doesn't care about your links and neither does anyone else.
You may think you can "grammah", which would be nice, because spelling is beyond your grasp. It would be nice if you had something going for you, but unfortunately ...
1) You have two related thoughts; these would be better connected with a semi-colon.
2) You have not properly ended your quote. Quotes begin and end with quotation marks. In addition your second sentence does not have proper verb usage. Should read "Try to avoid using contractions".
3) "sez" is not a word recognized in the English language. Sentences should not begin with conjunctions.
4) Again, quotes begin and end with quotation marks.
5) All sentences end with punctuation. Please be sure to do this as you made this mistake twice in one line.
6) Sentence does not make sense. Missing at least two punctuation marks, and contains an extra word. Reword sentence to make it clearer removing the "it" portion of the "it's" contraction.
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You just don't understand analogies, do you?
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It's up to the musician to provide an experience outside of the prerecorded music tracks that fans will pay for. The prerecorded music tracks aren't the product.
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When you work on the next version of your program, be sure to check for "wr" and swap it out with "r" words, as the "w" sound is rarely emphasized in verbal usage.
Actually, I would drop the alliterative function from your program altogether, it's just stupid. And your random word ending replacement function could use a bunch of tweaking, like "-ore" to "-oar" just doesn't work visually.
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Alliteration are words with the same consonant used in succession. While those two words did begin with "w", it wasn't used in an alliterative sense. Additionally, since writing phonetically begins with an "r" sound, you chose the wrong phonetic replacement. "Reading, Writing, and Arithmatic" is an alliteration because of this reason.
Grammar fail.
And I still don't believe a person wrote those bullet points, because I can't believe there is a real living person stupid enough to write so horribly with absolutely no sense of proper English usage and meaning. It would shatter the minimum IQ threshold I believe a person would need to have to be self-aware.
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People that buy hardcover books instead of checking them out for free from the library ... big dopes.
People that go to see movies in theaters instead of watching them at home when it airs for free on television ... big dopes.
People that buy CDs instead of listening to music for free on the radio ... big dopes.
People that watch TV and then go out and buy anything advertised during it ... big dopes.
People that buy newspapers instead of reading free newspapers or watching the news on TV for free ... big dopes.
A lotta big dopes in the world.
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Or people who buy CDs and MP3s ... I can get that for free from the radio or BitTorrent sites. Those people are the biggest dopes of them all.
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The musicians are selling themselves.
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Essentially, in the analogy, musicians are an ad agency with nothing to sell.
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This reeks of a bot scanning the copy of the posts, returning a set of grammar suggestions based on keywords and regular expression string matching, and then automatically making the comment. I have a feeling no one is ever going to receive a reply to a comment left to one of these again.
There was a series of regular posts by this person earlier where that feels like the programmer was trying to figure out how TechDirt's comment system works while programming his bot to parse TechDirt's content and be able to automatically fill in comments linking to various junk sites. The programmer was probably collecting HTML field names, backwards engineering how the posting of comments works, and then fed this data into his bot.
Mike, I highly recommend you investigate this "person" for bot activity. Each comment includes a link, so it's likely all intended to generate seemingly relevant comments to sneak in spam links.
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Not to mention your inability to understand basic grammar and blatant disregard for even attempting to spell anything correctly means no one reading your comments will take the links seriously.
So, Google doesn't care about your links and neither does anyone else.
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Does it even matter to anyone in government what the Constitution says anymore?
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2) "the" is not needed. The original statement is clear without it.
3) No. This is personal preference, not grammatically incorrect.
4) Your are presuming the intended meaning. Either way, it is grammatically correct.
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1) You have two related thoughts; these would be better connected with a semi-colon.
2) You have not properly ended your quote. Quotes begin and end with quotation marks. In addition your second sentence does not have proper verb usage. Should read "Try to avoid using contractions".
3) "sez" is not a word recognized in the English language. Sentences should not begin with conjunctions.
4) Again, quotes begin and end with quotation marks.
5) All sentences end with punctuation. Please be sure to do this as you made this mistake twice in one line.
6) Sentence does not make sense. Missing at least two punctuation marks, and contains an extra word. Reword sentence to make it clearer removing the "it" portion of the "it's" contraction.
7) All sentences end with punctuation.
8) Contains sentence fragments.
9) All sentences end with punctuation.
My grammar can kick your grammar's butt.
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