essentially, fundamentally, actually, was Re: [mg120482] And now for something completely different

If you mean A New Kind of Science,
try

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/search/?collection=nks&query=essentially

which gives you the 338 locations of the word "essentially".  All 
Wolfram sites tote up 5021 matches.

You might not have noticed the 551 occurrences of "fundamentally" (All 
sites 3418),
350 of "actually", and another 350 of "actual".

I hadn't realized this tool was available,  but using this search I 
found the count:
2229 of  "And",   (All sites 163,380).

Further investigation shows that this doesn't distinguish between "and" 
and "And"
so they are not all at the beginning of sentences.

These numbers are as of July 25, 2011 14:07 PST


My guess is that Wolfram didn't want to deal with editors, just as he 
didn't want to deal with publishers. He did it all himself.
I give him credit in that the resulting book is very nice to look at. On 
the other hand, I think one can't blame anyone else for its shortcomings.

RJF


On 7/25/2011 10:47 AM, Jack L Goldberg 1 wrote:
> As long as we are talking about poor written English, a particularly 
> annoying habit of Wolfram (or his editors) is the use of the word 
> "essentially" throughout his tome, "Mathematica". It appears so often 
> that it both disturbing and unessential (so to speak) :-)
>
> Jack
>