Just now I discovered its word frequency lists! Oh yes. These are exactly what I've been looking for. Immediate uses coming to mind include:
- Creating "soda water bottle"-type sentences from the TV and Movie Scripts lists that use things like
- the most frequently used sounds
- various even distributions of most frequently used sounds
- new English-like sounds
- a metalanguage that sounds exactly like English but isn't
- the most frequently used sounds
- Developing the Layman's Story, which utilizes only the top 20 nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
- Eliminating the top 20 nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverb from my vocabulary for a day
- Restricting my vocabulary to those words for a... as long as I can tolerate it...
I'll think of more.
3 comments:
I do not understand, at all, what you mean by #1.
Really? I actually thought you would, but maybe it's a more obscure thing than I thought. When I was doing community theater many MANY years ago, I was told to whisper "soda water bottle" repeatedly when my character is supposed to be whispering something. It's supposed to sound like you're actually saying something coherent. There's probably a lot of these kinds of sentences, that's just the one I was taught. What did you use?
OHHHH. You mean "peas and carrots" phrases. I wonder if that's a regional lexical variation.
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