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Re: sub species aeternitatis

by "Ed Cryer" <ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 16, 2008 at 07:27 PM

"Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:Xns9A63C99628449eejj99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> jsquarek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote on 15 mrt 2008 in alt.language.latin:
>
>> On Mar 15, 2:11 am, "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> wrote:
>>> B. T. Raven wrote on 15 mrt 2008 in alt.language.latin:
>>>
>>> > For some reason
>>> > Google doesn't honor the space in (quoted) "sub species" so that
>>> > that you get more hits than for "sub specie"
>>>
>>> try this search string:
>>>
>>> "sub species" -"subspecies"
>>>
>>> Still, you cannot filter out sub-species.
>
> [please do not quote signatures on usenet]
>
>> This is a fascinating observation.  I will verify what you
>> say.  It seems to me that Google and other aspects
>> of an evolving non-human complexity must show puzzling behavior. 
>> Why,
>> I
>> cannot say, but my intuition tells me so it must be.
>> I often find myself playing with changes in the words I
>> feed Google just to see the sometimes surprising
>> differences in its responses.
>
> The problem is the somewhat crazy English habit
> of separate words into smaller parts.
>
> Google tries to reconstruct the original,
> by allowing "sub species"
> to make hits on "subspecies".
>
> You could say it is a mistake of Google,
> but the problem is in the above habit.
>
>> We are here as on a darkling plain
>> And of on windows frost forming.
>
> "windows frost forming"?
>
> A good example, it would be one word in many an other language.
>

In German, maybe, but not in the Romance languages I know.

Ed
 




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sub species aeternitatis
"jsquarek@[EMAIL PRO  2008-03-14 15:03:11 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"B. T. Raven" &  2008-03-14 20:47:11 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Evertjan." <  2008-03-15 09:11:44 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"jsquarek@[EMAIL PRO  2008-03-14 20:51:54 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"B. T. Raven" &  2008-03-15 21:13:34 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Ed Cryer" <  2008-03-15 13:41:50 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"jsquarek@[EMAIL PRO  2008-03-15 08:06:00 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Evertjan." <  2008-03-16 18:49:03 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Ed Cryer" <  2008-03-16 19:24:11 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Evertjan." <  2008-03-17 09:10:44 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Ed Cryer" <  2008-03-17 17:13:00 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Ed Cryer" <  2008-03-17 17:23:51 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Ed Cryer" <  2008-03-16 19:27:24 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"jsquarek@[EMAIL PRO  2008-03-17 08:12:25 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Evertjan." <  2008-03-17 17:06:29 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"jsquarek@[EMAIL PRO  2008-03-17 11:23:47 
Re: sub species aeternitatis
"Evertjan." <  2008-03-18 09:23:58 

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