[Corpora-List] Do we still need language corpora?

[Yorick Wilks]

No, "bl" alone wont do  what you want--see
http://www.morewords.com/starts-with/bl/
there's bliss/bless/blond/blithe all in there too, though it probably is overall a rather negative list.
Yorick Wilks


On 7 Feb 2011, at 11:37, Francis Tyers wrote:

> El dl 07 de 02 de 2011 a les 16:36 +0000, en/na Justin Washtell va
> escriure:
>> I expect that phonesthemes hold the answer:
>> 
>> Blark resembles baulk, blurt, bark and berk, as well as blargh 
>> and blurgh and other sounds that people sometimes make when vomiting.
>> 
>> Bl also begins bleed[ing] (and bloomin'), blood[y], blight[ed], blither, blather and bludgeon.
>> 
>> I'm am looking forward to the day that computational models of 
>> semantics, sentiment and translation explore/exploit this basic linguistic phenomenon.
> 
> At the risk of cluttering the list further, I'll add that to me it has
> always conjured up the images of "bleak" and "dark".
> 
> Fran
> 
> 
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