On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:43:18 -0500, D Garcia <donovan@abs.net> wrote: |On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:05 am, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote: |> but what _is_ different, and undeniably so, |> is that google has a _huge_ corpus of text |<snip> |> the information about the world represented |> by _billions_ of web-pages out in cyberspace |> could lead to the gleaning of vast knowledge. |> (so much so that it could become very scary.) | |I can see this revealing (or at least quantifying) the disturbingly high rate |of spelling and grammatical errors. Billions and billions of them, to |paraphrase Sagan, or more likely (with sincere apologies to Kubrick) ... |"My God ... it's full of shit." | |Speaking of the web, of course. :) Clearly we are ?progressing? back to the days of Shakespeare when spelling was much more varied, and he spelled his name in several different ways. Not having a dictionary of ?correct? spelling available did his work no harm. Discuss. ;-) -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> Freedom of Speech, Expression, Religion, and Democracy are the keys to Civilization, together with legal acceptance of Fundamental Human rights.