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[Laurence Horn]

At 11:33 AM -0400 10/5/04, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>Google search
>         with all the words "bidar bi"
>         with none of the words "India bank bicycle"
>         pages written in English*
>yields among others the following definition from
>http://serf.org/~jon/soc.bi/faq/b.html:
>
>bidar:
>
>The ability to spot bisexuals just by looking at people (from radar; gaydar
>is also used)
>
>* "written in English" is not as helpful as it might be; this seems to be
>the default for building pages, and the search still returns such as the
>following three successive hits on the second page:


Thanks for the effort; as you could tell from my earlier message I
gave up after looking at a few pages and didn't even try excluding
India and such.  Another move I should have tried was just googling
on bi + bisexual, which provides 98 hits, most (although not all) of
which are relevant ones.  (There was the occasional article referring
to both bisexuality and the Bidar region of India.) I also picked up
a "str8dar" from one of the hits.

larry

>
>  DCPersian.com - Moshaereh
>... agha ghabool nist in z bood na zal vali khob bi khial inhame andooh dar
>... Khake Gharib Ke dar an hich kasi nist ke dar bisheye eshgh ghahremanan
>ra bidar konad.
>
>IRAN & china @ xsorbit Free Message Boards
>... Ishalla farda sob dige davar bidar nashe ke emrooz gerye hame iraniaro
>dar avord. ... Europe mas'ooline inja ham sedashoon az DAVARIE dirooz va bi
>ensafish boland
>
>manna
>... az zan har ghese hezar khane viraan az zan zaan balaa baashad be har
>kaashane-ii  Bi- bala hargez ... mehraboon emrooz naale mikoneh har dafee
>bidar shodeh savad
>
>
>So the results aren't very helpful for counting, unless you want to go
>through and count by hand, which I certainly don't, having REAL work of my
>own to get to, no matter how much fun this may be... ... ...
>
>Mark A. Mandel, Research Administrator
>Biomedical Information Extraction, Linguistic Data Consortium
>University of Pennsylvania
>[I talk, Dragon NaturallySpeaking types, I correct. Neither of us is
>perfect.]