If anyone at Twitter's paying attention, your mobile redirect breaks the link.
But I just typed it in manually.
I need a software that ....
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#13I have a saved search for "software sucks" and another for "program sucks", they can be pretty insightful. A lot of people really hate CD/DVD Burning software and manufacturer's printer software.
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#14Interesting idea, but the results are pretty empty...
The first page looks like it's full of people retweeting this. And the rest looks like job ads.
I'm amazed at how many times those job ads get retweeted. Recently, someone put up an ELance posting for 'salon software' which triggered my twitter search in Tweetdeck. There were 3-4 pages of retweets.
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#15A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would. "I need software that…" or "I need a program that…" would both be correct.
A significant fraction of my coworkers talk like that, and I've noticed lately that I'm starting to occasionally think/talk that way as well (note I'm from the U.S. midwest and only speak english). It's a bit disturbing, really.
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#16iusethis.com is probably a better resource for finding software that already exists. If the goal is to find ideas for software that doesn't exist my request would be something that makes sense out of Twitter searches. So much garbage, duplication and SPAM. It seems like there should be some better method even if it was simply a vote up/down style ranking system within the search results.
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#18I get (slightly) more interesting results from: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22I+wish+there+was+software%2...
Or just "I wish there was..." I wish there was a Gucci Mane bot. I wish there was a checkers in tneck. hey. There isn't a storm comming. I wish there was... I wish there was a photographer with me in the bathroom rite now caz I look hella sexy!!! #conceitedtweet OK, no great business ideas there (unless you work for Checkers Drive-In Restaurants and can figure out where tneck is) but a great insight into the hopes an…
A Gucci Mane bot would be so sweet.
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#19A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would. "I need software that…" or "I need a program that…" would both be correct.
You don't need to qualify it that far. It's grammatically incorrect in just about all standard forms of English. Exceptions happen in various jargons like you'll see 'codes' in sciency and weapons-researchy contexts but I don't think this is one of them.
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#20A native speaker of english from the west would never use this phrasing — software is abstract rather than individual. Your usage stands out as south asian as much as "do the needful" would. "I need software that…" or "I need a program that…" would both be correct.
You don't need to qualify it that far. It's grammatically incorrect in just about all standard forms of English. Exceptions happen in various jargons like you'll see 'codes' in sciency and weapons-researchy contexts but I don't think this is one of them.
On the other hand, frequency defines correct grammar eventually, doesn't it? If enough South Asians use that phrasing consistently, you can't argue it's bad grammar in that context.
Personally I find 'a software' and 'softwares' extremely annoying.