Ives' clever wordsmithing is profoundly on display in "The Universal Language", where a timid, stuttering woman, (Jenn Harris), visits the nutty instructor (Elrod) of a class in the artificial language he calls Unamunda.

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Creating software that can write long-form narratives is very difficult, full of all sorts of interesting artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language problems.

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