Don't mean to thread hijack, but it seems this thread was pretty far gone anyway.
I must say that the English phonotactics are really on display here. Googlezon sounds like something big, heavy and vaguely dangerous, a kind of Golem but somewhat clunky and difficult to take seriously, like the monsters in old Japanese semi-animations. Amazoogle sounds like something from a Douglas Adams book, with a long wiggly trunk and lumpy multicolored skin, probably involving purple and green coloration and perhaps spots, and even more difficult to take seriously. Now why would that be? Syllable-initial stops versus vowels and sibilants? Stress on the final versus the penultimate syllable? A reduced final vowel in the latter that kind of dribbles away? Must ask my psycholinguist friends for a breakdown. I'm sure they have nothing better to do. On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Vaaaary funny. It’s some sort of a video or perhaps only a link? If > somebody doesn’t remember its name or have a better filing system than mine, > I think it is lost in the bit-midden. > > N > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:31 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. > > "I know it’s on my hard drive but I cannot imagine how to search for it." > > Use Google. > > On Feb 27, 2013 8:24 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > Does anybody remember a wonderful, phony corporate ad which predicted the > eclipsing of Microsoft by an entity called Googlezon (as opposed to > Amazoogle, I suppose). I know it’s on my hard drive but I cannot imagine how > to search for it. Might be time to dust it off and wonder how close it came > to being true. And, of course, we ain’t done yet. > > N > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Eric Charles > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:45 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. > > Don't be silly. Soon as WebCrawler aggregates all those results, they will be > the clear winner! > > > -------- > Eric Charles > Assistant Professor of Psychology > Penn State, Altoona > > From: "Barry MacKichan" <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> > To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam@redfish.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:03:41 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. > > Alta Vista > On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyone else remember when google was this small internet search engine that > hardly anyone had heard of because they were off using yahoo? (or possible > lycos?) > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
