22 October 2009

"Feisty Embuggerance"


When computers screw up, they can generate concoctions that even the most inventive mind would never have conceived. Witness the improbably-named authors in the above citation, literally created by Google Scholar when a literature-scanning algorith went awry.

The process is explained at Glossographia and discussed at Language Log.

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