animal "produce" (some Google results)?

[Mark Mandel]

I hope you didn't feel chidden, Arnold. I hadn't even noticed the
lines that gave rise to that digression, & intended simply to correct
a trivial error that could affect citations.
m a m
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On 11/26/08, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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 .
>
> oh lord, i won't ever bother again trying to follow other people's
> practices.  it's just stupid.  i should represent things any way i
> want.  i am truly sorry i tried to follow what i saw on my screen as
> wikipedia's practices, however silly i might have thought them.
>
> arnold
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