"this deep"

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0I would appreciate it if anyone would clarify what the boldfaced part refers to. In addition, the iaticized "eliminate...into" sounds foreign to my ears. Does it make sense?02br02br00.....If you're an individual buying a house or a CEO erecting a new plant, you may well say, Who cares? Or better still: bravo! Falling long-term rates make it easier to finance such projects. Yet easy financing is exactly what the Fed wants to 01i00eliminate02i00 01b00this deep02b00 01i00into02i00 a recovery. Greenspan is worried that too much easy loot has found its way not just into housing but also into many other things.....0-

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

0 'This deep into' is as far/advanced (deep) as the economic recovery is at the moment. The Fed wants to 01font00eliminate easy financing at this point in the recovery02font00.0-

Komountain · Answer

0I regretted posting this question. I misparsed the sentence. In the course of life, there is a time when you make yourself a fool by misunderstanding the obvious. Such a time came my way yesterday. 02br
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Chaoss · Answer

0 Such a time comes my way today. Am I a fool or what does the word "misparsed" mean? 0-

MrPedantic · Answer

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01cite10Chaoss12cite10Such a time comes my way today. Am I a fool or what does the word "misparsed" mean?12blockquote

10'Misparse' is a fine word, Chaoss. It means 'analyse the grammar incorrectly'.02br
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00"I misparsed that sentence." = "I analysed that sentence incorrectly, in grammatical terms."02br
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Chaoss · Answer

0Strange, very strange... It is not in my e-dictionary. And it is Babylon! 050010id37

Mister Micawber · Answer

0 Chaoss, if you look at 01i00Webster's Collegiate02i00 (the printed dictionary I happen to use), for example, you'll see that it does not have entries for all words having common prefixes. There is simply not space to accommodate all of them, so it merely includes lists of the more common words under such prefixes as 01i00mis-, un-, pre-02i00, etc. Many such words of a less common nature will not appear in the dictionaries, therefore except under their root, e.g. 'parse'.02br
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00 Searching the internet reveals several reputable examples of the use of 'misparse', however:02br
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00 (1)" Trueswell et al.(1999) found that children 01b00misparse02b00 these sentences even in the two-referent context. Specifically, children erred in their actions in a manner consistent with a destination interpretation, i.e. they were at chance when selecting between the two frogs and frequently moved one frog to an empty napkin (a "false destination").02br
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00 (2) Return the current input line number. This is often used when errors are encountered to report the input line number responsible for the 01b00misparse02b00.02br
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00 (3)01b00 Misparsing02b00 induced by omissions has a far-reaching consequence in machine translation. Namely, 01b00a misparse02b00 of the input often leads to a translation into the target language that has incoherent meaning in the given context. This is more frequently the case if the structures of the source and target languages are quite different, as in English and Korean.02br
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00 (4) # Have we solved the associativity problem? No. You'll observe that we can still 01b00misparse02b00 a-a-a.02br
00 # How do we handle associativity?02br
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00 * By considering which tree is correct.02br
00 * By considering why the incorrect tree is incorrect.02br
00 * By trying to change the grammar to eliminate the incorrect tree. 02br
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00 (5) This means that the parser might make mistakes and fail to find interpretations for some sentences. If the technique works correctly, however, only sentences that people tend to 01b00misparse02b00 will be misparsed by the system."02br
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Chaoss · Answer

0 Mister Micawber, thanks a lot. Now I see that I was not farseeing enough... 0-

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