Tuesday, September 28, 2010

important new data on adjectives and swear words

An important quantitative psycholinguistic analysis of adjectives in English from xkcd.com. Thanks to Jonathan Simon from UMD for pointing out this essential pattern of findings.

Posted by David Poeppel at

1 comments:

kat said...

I say "Kafkaesque as shit" on a regular basis, and thus question the rigor of the experiment.

September 28, 2010 12:24 PM

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