Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
You know, I don't mind when Google asks "did you mean" - sometimes I do mistype (gasp!).
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 9:00 AM, October 17, 2012
D. C. Hall had this to say...
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At 10:23 AM, October 17, 2012
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I hate that, too. Google has a "verbatim" tool that searches for what you actually type in, but unfortunately it's not any more convenient than clicking the "Search instead for [what I really typed]" link, because it's only accessible from the search results page—Google doesn't appear to supply a way of stipulating in advance that you want to do a verbatim search, let alone a way of setting that as the default.
However, the verbatim option can be selected fairly easily with an argument (tbs=li%3A1) appended to the requested URL when the search is performed, so on my own little front end for google.ca, I've got it set up to do verbatim searches by default. You can roll your own by making a copy of the Google home page of your choice and adding the line <input type=hidden name=tbs value="li:1"> to the html code anywhere inside the form element that contains the search text box and button.
Shiny!
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