Another language game: How many of the 100 most common English words can you name in five minutes?
Of course, the actual words in the list will depend largely on the corpus they’re using. Still, it’s an interesting challenge. As a computational linguist, I must have looked at loads of lists like this, but I only got 50 of them. That was more a function of how fast I could type. You have to bang out one every 3 seconds with no mistakes to get them all.
Hmm. How can I get a hold of their language data? I’d like to know what people thought were the most common words.
16 August 2008 at 12:18 am
blimey – that was hard!! I only got 39