Agreed, this sounds like the pontificating of someone who has not studied language and culture. As soon as the machine can understand any "natural language" say

Agreed, this sounds like the pontificating of someone who has not studied language and culture. As soon as the machine can understand any "natural language" say to it, the language is dead. Before you teach your database to interpret upper class out of sight "White" English, try teaching it "Ebonics." I guess my point is, there's nothing "natural" about language.