animal "produce" (some Google results)?

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 27 03:31:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> i cited the titles of wikipedia entries with initial caps (not all
> caps), because that's wikipedia's practice.  (i also used an
> underscore, rather than a space, between words in titles of entries,
> again because that's wikipedia's practice.)

Actually they DON'T normally use underscores in the titles of entries,
but their software translates spaces in the titles into underscores in
the URLs, rather than the hard-to-read string "%20". For instance,
Wikipedia's entry for "Language Log" is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Log .

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