Re: OT: agnosticism
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 20, 2001, 23:31 |
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
> > It would be an interesting corpus project to see if "PERSON that"
> > is actually less frequent than "PERSON who", relative to the
> > frequencies of "THING that" vs. "THING who".
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> "Thing who" isn't even grammatical, is it?
Sure is. But if we replace "THING who" with "THING what", I think we have
a valid comparison. (Prediction: "THING what" will be very low in
frequency, since it is considered "substandard" and won't make it into as
many of the availably corpuses.)
Marcus
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