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<div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Yes. The implementation was correct, the docs just needed to be clarified. The explanation on the website has since been updated and all is clear now.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks,</div>
<div dir="ltr">Blake</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Aug 17, 2025, at 2:24 AM, Martin Porter <martin.f.porter2@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div>Blake,</div>
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<div>Have you received a reply to your query? I'm afraid it has been in my spam folder since July 26, and I have only just noticed it. </div>
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<div>Like you I'm puzzled, but not in quite the same way. The rule for -ers goes</div>
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<dl><dt>(<i>i</i>) <b><i>giv hav skap</i></b> </dt><dd>delete <b><i>ers</i></b> suffix </dd><dt>(<i>ii</i>) <b><i>amm ast ind kap kk lt nk omm pp v øst</i></b>
</dt><dd>do nothing </dd><dt>(<i>iii</i>) if none of these suffixes are present </dt><dd>delete <b><i>ers</i></b> suffix </dd></dl>
(If I've understood correctly) the tests in (i) seem to be irrelevant, since ers will get deleted anyway by (iii). 'none' in (iii) must refer to the list in (ii). balders -> bald by (iii). The snowball code reflects this exactly but 'giv' 'hap' 'skap' seem
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<div>All this is a development from my original Norwegian stemmer at <a href="http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/norwegian/stemmer.html">http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/norwegian/stemmer.html</a> , presumably to get a more delicate test for removal
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