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00:09
I feel like a cyclops.
 
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02:01
I see what you mean.
 
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05:37
Is this sentence correct?
"How can I determine which user is the top one in the specific tag?"
 
5 hours later…
10:35
@Robusto I think not!
Wherefore, I ain't.
A Trumpular New Year to y'all.
 
1 hour later…
11:53
On COCA I am getting this message after like every other query there. So all the users of COCA out there, do you just wait it out when you see this message?
well if ain't free then I would rather not use it, not interested in things like that.
I'm logged in and have an account there but still.
Well anyway, I logged in there to search for this little sentence "jump into the first job" and got only 1 result.
On Google I got 35 results, they could be from anywhere but still a huge difference, so how come COCA is known for statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules?
I am kind of clueless at this point. I actually wanted to see the whole sentence "jump into the first job offer" but with "offer" there were no results in the corpus.
12:41
@RegDwigнt Guess this means all Russians get free VISAs to Amerika now, ’cause Putin likes nothing more than to stick it up aMex’s bum.
 
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15:40
@Arrowfar Yes Just wait it out.
@Arrowfar Sources have to have money to survive somehow. Google does it through advertising. I don't know how COCA does it (subsidized by BYU?). A strategy for 'freely' provided services is, because a totally free service might be overused (nothing stopping them), then you throttle overuse by placing a limit on the number of unencumbered pings.
As to content, COCA is a curated text source but google is not. This means you can expect COCA to have (mostly) correct formal language with few errors. With google you may get good results but there may lots of distracting/irrelevant/junk instances.
@Arrowfar did you try not such a long specific phrase, something like just 'first job offer' (I'm supposing that is what you really care about than the full phrase)
 
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23:25
@Cascabel You gave me quite a shock! It seems I really do have ophidiophobia.

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