>> Yeah, but what about someone who wants to tag a document with "hot dog"?<br>This is exactly what I meant when I wrote the following:<br>"I would use 'java_rmi' only incase the two words are inseparable and have no mean indepently."
<br><br>'hot dog' is an entirely different entity which is formed by combining hot and dog. Therefore user would be inclined to use it as a single word of the form 'hotdog' or 'hot_dog'. But 'london' 'trip' is formed by two different words having the same semantics when used in multi words or even as a single word.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Colin Viebrock</b> <<a href="mailto:colin@tucows.com">colin@tucows.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> For instance if I have to<br>> tag a document with tags java and rmi, I would rarely go ahead and tag<br>> it as<br>> 'java_rmi' but rather I would tag it as 'java' and 'rmi'. I would use<br>> 'java_rmi' only incase the two words are inseparable and have no mean
<br>> indepently.<br>><br>> Now with multi-word tags users can use entire phrases like 'a trip to<br>> london' to tag items which they would have tagged as 'london' 'trip'<br>> incase<br>> of single word tags. This makes the tagged item difficult to discover,
<br>> making the tag and thus the user to tagged item relationship non-social<br>> (quite opposite to what a tag is supposed to do).<br><br>Yeah, but what about someone who wants to tag a document with "hot dog"?
<br><br>- Colin<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Andie