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Snarp ([personal profile] snarp) wrote2010-06-29 12:59 am

An extremely important poll.

When you're testing something that involves some typing - as in, you need to send a test email, or make a test blog post - what piece of text do you usually type in?

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When you're testing something that involves some typing - as in, you need to send a test email, or make a test blog post - what piece of text do you usually type in?



If no one else is going to see it, I instinctively type "trala." I don't know where that came from. A second iteration, if necessary, will be "tralala," and so on. If someone else will see it, though, it's always "Testing.", with the punctuation - evidently I am shamed by my own tralalaing.

These rules are suspended when it's a search query of any kind, because regardless of whether anyone's watching, I always feel it necessary to search for "elephants." I can't explain that, either. I guess I just want some elephants.
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[personal profile] telophase 2010-06-29 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Working in a library, we need to perform test searches in the catalog on a regular basis. I usually search for "manga" because it brings up a variety of results - books on manga, journals, actual manga, authors named Manga, books on Hokusai, books on Manga Reva (the Forgotten Islands, apparently), at least one honors paper, and something I just found I'm going to have to go examine: Manga High : literacy, identity, and coming of age in an urban high school.

My other generic search is "manatee", which I picked up from a co-worker. Said co-worker also searches for "Cat Island" because it *should* bring up stuff about an island named Cat Island if proximity matters in the search algorithm, and lots of stuff about cats and lots of stuff about islands otherwise.