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It’s really interesting they have so many unique words for ice because the top 100 words in the Oxford English Corpus make up about 50% of all of written Englis
by awb 5y ago
It’s really interesting they have so many unique words for ice because the top 100 words in the Oxford English Corpus make up about 50% of all of written English. I wonder how often these words for ice are actually used in practice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
> According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English.
- lgessler 5y agoZipf's law has been found to be very robust empirically, so you can also assume the same holds (top 100 account for 50% of volume) for Inuit languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law