research?

[Ronald Butters]

In my world, performing a Google search for a word and then looking up the word in several a dictionaries and reporting on the instances that support one's thesis  is still "research," even if it is only very simple research. Why the nasty quibble about words?

Maybe "research" should be defined in dictionaries as "performing a Google search for a word and then looking up the word in several a dictionaries and reporting on the instances that support one's thesis" so that I can use it to describe that process?

On Feb 6, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Paul Frank wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM,  <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks to Paul for doing this research.
>>
>> A separate entry for "rugged weather" still seems like overkill to me. Anyone could figure out the meaning of "rugged weather" from the other definition in the same way that one could figure out "rugged toilet training" or "rugged oral exam". But I bow to the professional opinion of AMERICAN HERITAGE--if this isn't something they put in to see if other dictionary makers plagiarized their triviality.
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>> If they took this out, they would have room for "snood"!
>
>
> I didn't do any research. I cut and pasted.

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