Odp: Question: Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian song lyrics

[Loren Billings]

I might add one crucial point to Wayles Browne's sage advice (the relevant parts
of which are repeated below): He recommends <http://www.google.com>. This is a
particularly good search engine for this kind of thing because it looks not just
at what the web site presents as noteworthy (i.e., the meta data), but at the
entire text of web sites. Another crawler with this property is
<http://alltheweb.com>, which actually crawls through some 90 percent of the
web's total content--an amazing accomplishment. These are the only two search
engines that do this to my knowledge.

--Loren Billings


Wayles Browne wrote (snipped somewhat):

> There is a more general method too. Open a web search
> engine, such as http://www.google.com , and type in a few words from
> any favorite
> song (choose a line or phrase that doesn't have letters with diacritical marks)
> beginning and ending with " ".
>
> For example, "da legnem kraj tebe"
> (from Kafu mi, draga, ispeci)
> or "kad ljubi Bosanac"
> or "tamo daleko daleko"
> (if you type in simply "tamo daleko" you will get many pages that refer
> to the song but don't quote its text)
> or "Samoborci piju vino z lonci"
> Where there is the text of one song, there is very likely to be the text of
> other songs too.


--
Postscript:
Please note my slightly revised e-mail address.
Please use <billings at kmutt.ac.th> from now on.
--

Loren A. BILLINGS, Ph.D. <billings at kmutt.ac.th>

Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Liberal Arts [office: room 207]
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Pracha U-Tit Road, Thungkru, Ratburana
Bangkok 10140 THAILAND

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