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Theft  ·  3378 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Zipf Mystery - Vsauce

That makes me a bit curious if purposefully breaking the zipf is somehow unpleasant. Like you said, you'd think twice about saying 'sauce' a bunch of times in a row, but we don't give a second thought to repeating common words. Kind of freaky to think that we have some sort of unconscious bias.