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It's funny how some adjectives always seem to be followed by certain nouns, huh? I think about this whenever I heard about "bodies strewn on the street" on the
by chickenfries 9y ago
It's funny how some adjectives always seem to be followed by certain nouns, huh? I think about this whenever I heard about "bodies strewn on the street" on the news.
Reading (and watching) seems to be compared to eating all the time:
- I devoured that book
- I binged that season
Then there's that term, "consumption" which seemingly applies to every piece of media.
- knight17 9y agoSimilarly, I have observed 'abject' going with 'poverty', usually.
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- dswalter 9y agoYou're looking for the linguistic term 'collocation,' and these are good examples of idiomatic usage of English. Further, words located in proximity with each other is a big part of the distributional hypothesis: "you shall know a word by the company it keeps". This is in turn a key component of how language models like word2vec or GloVe can be effective.
- jacobolus 9y agohttps://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy....
- philwelch 9y agoThere is a "veritable cornucopia" of these phrases.