Klarinet Archive - Posting 000455.txt from 2004/06

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] "Tunes create context like language"
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:23:56 -0400

Perhaps I'm dense this morning, but this one particular sentence doesn't
ake sense to me?

> American social scientist George Kingsley
> Zipf discovered that if he ranked words in
> literary texts according to the number of times
> they appeared, a word's rank was roughly
> proportional to the inverse of its frequency. In
> other words, a graph of one plotted against
> the other appeared as a straight line.

The above seems like a meaningless statement to me, similar to: "I'm
tall, so this proves that I'm tall."

.....maybe I need a double-sized cup of expresso this morning....

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