"... which explains why natural languages are poorly approximated by Markov processes." Is that a joke? It's 2016 and you think you need to explain that a Mark

"... which explains why natural languages are poorly approximated by Markov processes." Is that a joke? It's 2016 and you think you need to explain that a Markov process is a poor approximation of natural language? This has been obvious for computational linguists, and anyone working in the field, from day one.