Linguistic dark matter

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/20/2010 04:43 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>The book is from 1819, but the text is much older.

Another problem with Google Ngram, and GBooks also, that until this
instant I had not taken into my consciousness.  Doh!  Quotations from
older text will be missed.  Human intelligence triumphs once
more.  And even more dark matter exists in the linguistic universe.

Joel

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