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Re: When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries?

From Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups sci.lang, rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english
Subject Re: When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries?
Date 2024-09-02 14:58 +0000
Message-ID <slrnvdbklf.9jo.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> (permalink)
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On 2024-09-02, Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>> In this Web-site, there are new entries (with Dates) every day.
>
> Which web site? Though I suppose that doesn't
> matter

Language Log.

>> « Previous Page — « Previous Entries     Next Entries » — Next Page »
>
> Self explanatory (in English)

"Older/newer" would be.  "Previous/next" is not, because it is
ambiguous in this context whether "next" refers to older or newer
entries.  It's a blog, so your default starting point is at the
end, which renders the notions of "next" and "previous" iffy.

Actually, now that I'm looking more closely at the footer at Language
Log, it's even more confusing, because "page" and "entries" are
separate links that go in opposite directions.  Say, you're on page 3.
So these are the footer links:

« Previous Page – « Previous Entries   Next Entries » — Next Page »

And here's where they'll take you:

  Previous Page:    page 2
  Previous Entries: page 4
  Next Entries:     page 2
  Next Page:        page 4

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries? HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-09-01 15:59 -0700
  Re: When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries? HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> - 2024-09-01 23:38 +0000
  Re: When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries? Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-01 22:05 -0600
    Re: When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries? Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2024-09-02 14:58 +0000
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        Re: When you click on [« Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries? HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-09-02 15:51 -0700
  Re: When you click on [� Previous Page], do you think you'd see earlier entries? Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2024-09-02 00:28 -0400

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