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{{quote|''"Are you familiar with the old robot saying: 'Does Not Compute'?"''|'''Bender''', ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''}} |
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Robots, androids, or any other artificially-intelligent machine with the ability to talk to humans very often does so in a flat and monotone voice that's devoid of emotion, with machine-like gaps between each word and/or sentence. In English, a robot may often speak without contractions, even though a contraction would be one of the easiest parts of speech to program a computer to do correctly. Their speech also often includes numerous specialized computer derived robotic [[Stock Phrases]], such as: "affirmative/negative" instead of "yes/no", "file not found", and the classic "does not compute" when [[Logic Bomb|confused]]. |
Robots, androids, or any other artificially-intelligent machine with the ability to talk to humans very often does so in a flat and monotone voice that's devoid of emotion, with machine-like gaps between each word and/or sentence. In English, a robot may often speak without contractions, even though a contraction would be one of the easiest parts of speech to program a computer to do correctly. Their speech also often includes numerous specialized computer derived robotic [[Stock Phrases]], such as: "affirmative/negative" instead of "yes/no", "file not found", and the classic "does not compute" when [[Logic Bomb|confused]]. |
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