Even though recently the English bootstrap (enBoot) of MindForth
has contained the sentence, "ROBOTS NEED ME", in practice the AI
has tended quite irritatingly to say "ROBOTS NEED I". Today we
would like to perform a little psychosurgery and correct the
improper use of personal pronouns when used as direct objects.
At the same time, we may prepare for an upcoming change in the
English bootstrap sequence, so that enBoot will have a built-in
readiness to deal properly with direct-object personal pronouns.
The current enBoot contains "I, me, we, you, they." We should
soon expand the bootstrap to include:

he, him
she, her
they, them
we, us
who, whom

We will try using the dirobj flag to trigger the changing of "I"
into "ME" for usage as a direct object. In verbPhrase and in
Predicate (cloned from verbPhrase), the line of code

1 dirobj ! \ 14sep2005 Declare seeking of a direct object.

While we are wrestling with the fiber-out "fex" and fiber-in "fin" system,
let us go into the enBoot sequence and change the "seq" tag on "you"
from zero ("0") to #35 "ARE" so that the AI will tend to say "YOU ARE"
when the concept of "YOU" is activated. In the enBoot sequence, we do
not have to have only the obvious associations apparent within each
sentence of the enBoot.

After much trial-and-error, we have gotten the nounPhrase module to
switch from saying "I" to saying "ME" as a direct object of a transitive
verb.

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