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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  3377 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Zipf Mystery - Vsauce

You know how if you say a word enough times you can kinda lose track of what it means and it just sounds strange? That list of the most used words, especially the top ten-twenty or so, is full of small, slippery, hard to define words. I've got a half-developed idea that relates frequency of word use to it's specificity of definition, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to phrase any of it in a way that makes sense.