Re: GR translation: you’d be amazed at the frequency with this one

[David Morris]

“This one” refers to the word “against.”

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 10:24 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V32.5-19, P32.23-38   “Well. Recall Zipf’s Principle of Least Effort: if we
> plot the frequency of a word P sub n against its rank-order n on
> logarithmic axes,” babbling into her silence, even her bewilderment
> graceful, “we should of course get something like a straight line . . .
> however we’ve data that suggest the curves for certain—conditions, well
> they’re actually quite different—schizophrenics for example tend to run a
> bit flatter in the upper part then progressively steeper—a sort of bow
> shape . . . I think with this chap, this Roland, that we’re on to a
> classical paranoiac—”
>        Ha. That’s a word she knows. “Thought I saw you brighten up there
> when he said ‘turned against.’ ”
>        “‘Against,’ ‘opposite,’ yes you’d be amazed at the frequency with
> this one.”
>        “What’s the most frequent word?” asks Jessica. “Your number one.”
>        “The same as it’s always been at these affairs,” replies the
> statistician, as if everyone knew: “death.”
>
> What does "this one" refer to here?
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