Re: [REQUEST] Ying Yang

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> 
> Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> >
> > joris bellenger (svz...@xs4all.nl) wrote:
> > > Samurai Dragon wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dan Larkin wrote:
> > > > > Just curious....
> > > > > Isn't it "yinyang"?
> > > >
> > > > I think this has been mentioned before, but yes, you're right.
> > > >
> > > > Yin   - positive aspect, light (associated with the male gender, rightly
> > > >         or not)
> > > > Yang  - negative aspect, darkness (ditto female)
> > > >
> > > > Samurai Dragon
> > > >   -==UDIC==-
> >
> > Ok, Yin is not positive, nor Yang is negative.  Its just white /
> > black, light / dark, active / passive, male / female.  The male /
> > female association is because of the activeness / passiveness, not
> > something like positive / negative or good / bad.
> >
> > > How about ping-pong ?
> >
> > Everybody knows that ping is active and pong is passive, right?
> >
> 
> Hmmm... lets see what the majority thinks... but I *don't* mean by
> "voting" here at alt.ascii-art or by bombing my mail box! I mean, lets
> see how many answers Alta Vista gives on some possible spellings:
> 
> yin yan         71
> yin yang        5000
> ying yan        53
> ying yang       800
> 
> yin and yan     18
> yin and yang    500
> ying and yan    1
> ying and yang   100
> 
> yinyan          272
> yinyang         6549
> yingyan         12
> yingyang        1305
> 
> Well, it looks as if a clear winner is "yin" combined with "yang",
> followed by "ying" combined with "yang". This is not an absolute 
> result, only a measurement of how the people on the web seem to 
> consider these words should be spelled.
> 
> --
> :)
> Veronica Karlsson
> (e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )
> (llizard's animation site:  http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/docs/ )

What number did you look at? here's an example search:

                               ,this one?
Word count: yang ying: about 85
Documents 1-10 of about 71 matching the query, best matches first.
                         `or this one?

Word count: yang yin: about 200
Documents 1-10 of about 200 matching the query, best matches first.


Word count: yan yin: about 29
Documents 1-10 of 25 matching the query, best matches first.


Word count: yan ying: about 26
Documents 1-10 of 25 matching the query, best matches first.

yang yin seems to be quite popular :-)

Greetz,
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