Dear Friends, My years of interaction on this newsgroup have payed off.  I have developed a new theory of language that makes it possible to use computers as linguistic machines.  You can find out more about this on http://panlingua.net, where various text files and audio lectures on the subject can be found, along with examples of interactive software running in English, Hawaiian, Buru Language, Ambon Malay, Indonesian, and Vietnamese. But what I really want to announce in this message is my new web site, http://witchit.com. Witchit is a new and innovative kind of web search engine, and I need to get a lot of people on board to make it work.  The basic idea is something like Wikipedia, but this system operates entirely on natural language, and I believe it is a prototype, or maybe a seed, of the search engine of the future. All of the tables and other data collected in this project will be available for correction and for use as-is by any member of the public. Upgrades and corrections will be vetted before being used to replace old information, but anyone will be free to send these in. We will also provide search engines free of charge for new kinds of information provided by the public in usable form.  For example, suppose you have a table relatedto some field of science.  We will provide the software to _link_ this information into our main system and make it available in natural language (plain English for now). Here are some of the kinds of things Witchit can already do right now as explained in response to a What can you do? query: I have only begun to pluck the low-hanging fruit from the vast tree of knowledge, but already I can do a lot. Before I say anything else, if you ask me something and I don't know the answer, and you think I ought to know that answer, just tell it to me by typing it in, and I will remember it in a day or two.  For example: John Doe was born on may 20, 1985. With this information, I will later be able to answer questions like the following: When was John Doe born? What is John Doe's birthday? How old is John Doe? Remember,your participation in this project is important to me and to all the people who bother me with questions! Here are some example questions and commands I can respond to now: I can tell you when to catch the bus: When does the bus leave from Ocean View for the University of Hawaii? If your favorite bus schedule is not available to Witchit, just e-mail it to Chaumont Devin, and he will make sure it gets included.  You can also just tell it to me as follows