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On 1/28/2011 1:04 PM, Ted Pedersen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What a fun thread. :)
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One part alchemy and one part science. Since I kinda kicked off this
thread with my concern about us not looking for primitives, I'd like
to add a few further cents and a lament.<br>
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PBS newshour did a piece on Google's n-grams a few weeks ago ("Word
Nerding Just Got Easier") with the ever delightful Erin McKean. This
thread has partially followed that notion with all the humorous noun
compounds. I hope we don't focus on those so much, except as needed
to do crossword puzzles.<br>
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Yorick expressed his long experience with an apparent lack of
progress. Certainly, Robert has clear scientific goals in mind and
we have gotten some nice "scientific" observations, particularly
from John, Ramesh, Anne-Kathrin, and Ted. It would be nice if we
could get some community-wide effort into this. We need a vehicle,
perhaps transforming Wiktionary. It would be nice if we could apply
John's rules to Ted's compounds and <b>put those findings into a
dictionary</b> (lexicographers have only barely done so, while
lexicologists need that information).<br>
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Ken<br>
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