quotemine

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Apr 23, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 4/23/2011 05:26 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Quotemine" is interesting. The idea is similar to "trolling"
>> (originally http://goo.gl/70A3R ).
>
> More from "data mining", I think.  (Is "to data mine" a verb
> yet?)

oh yes, yes, yes:

http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/mining-back-formations/

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