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I now can ask Google some plain english questions like: "what is a manga" [google.com]
works for more common words like internet, ball, air, table, etc.
This seems rather new to me, and maybe it's not on all the servers yet?
slight typo there towards his example?
"what is"
and
"definition"
seem to be equal to the "define" function
"define:" (with colon) gives multipe definitions if available
(which can differ substantially with [labs.google.com...] which I think searches/uses a larger database)
It's all part of getting a better handle on the meanings of words, in my book. :)
The trouble is that the Americans and the English are two nations divided by a single language. I was on a 3M Global new product development team in the 1980s. Back in those days the World was divided into US and OUS (O being outside for those of us outside the Americans reading this will already know the meaning of OUS).
We had two marketing guys on the team. The one from the US was responsible for the US, I looked after the rest of the World. Guess who earned the most!
There has been so much divergence in the use of English that I wish that Google would treat English (UK) as a foreign language and apply CIRCA to US English where the big money is. Any chance you could sort that in the next 48 hours please? Oh go on, I'm struggling hard enough to remember to mis-spell colour and grey in my CSS having Google force it's dialect on us is just too much.
Best wishes
Sid
Now (I still get the warning but) I usually get a useful answer on top. I know that novices are much more likely to try a plain english question and this will at least help them somewhat.
