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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David.

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 5:17 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> “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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