Natural language doesn’t work
nNL has no meaning!
nNo communicative context
nNL is verbose!
n“Move to the beginning of the line and replace two words
there with ‘A new’”
nNL is not a tool!
nSince tools allow concise sequencing of atomic
actions
nNL commands are confusable with NL dictation!
nCurrent dictation system are most unnatural to
use as a result (because
pauses must be inserted by user