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From: gbergman@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Positive thinking
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 18:37:56 EST
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Two points just occurred to me re my preceding note on occurrences
of the word "not".  First, one often has "n't" instead.
So I did a similar search (removing the restriction that it be
preceded by a nonalphabetic character, of course) for that sequence
in a few cases:
	GROUP		"not"	"n't"	LINES
	jobs		   2       4	  489
	general		   8       5	  672
	flame		  84     109	 2394
(I draw no conclusions.)  Second, if I wanted to do this seriously
I would try to exclude occurrences in signatures.  Before I had
the alias in final form, when I was looking at grep outputs and
counting lines, I saw a number of "[I am not a stranger ...]"
signatures.  I suppose one should just look for recurring lines of this
sort and have the sed script delete them specifically.

			George Bergman
			Math, UC Berkeley 94720 USA
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