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(Earlier also had @sga@lemmy.world for a year before I switched to lemmings)

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  • I made a new community today !stupid_questions@lemmings.world. It is a simple community, appreciating absurd questions (not in my community, but the recently asked question 100 men vs gorrila also fits in it). Due to nature of community, it can actually be more interlinked with other communities, for example the gorilla question would be also fit in a biomechanics community ( i do not think we have one yet) but maybe biomechanics community does not have any (or many) subscribers, then stupid_questions folk can also join them. This somewhat happened (to soon to say much about this, all hypothesising) with first post, about brand new sentences, which is now cross posted to linguistics community. I think this can plug in a “humor” “hole” for many communities. General asking communities definitely do appreciatie humor, but may not be “nerdy” enough (i do not like using this word, especially on lemmy, where i could practically categorise everyone using lemmy to be a nerd, if you have a better one please do tell) to willingly subscribe to a “absurdism” community. My guess would be that people who appreciate absurd stuff, might have a stronger correlation with those who are interested in academicc disciplines. Maybe it is a wrong hunch, but my time on internet for however long i have been on it suggests that.




  • i think you have already given a pretty good and structured method to analyse the situation. Thanks!

    lets consider a world where everyone speaks english. Lets also consider some average sentence length (i don’t think sentence lengths would follow a normal distribution, i think they follow a poissonian (or something alike), essentially peaking around mean, and then sentences get rarer as they get longer (but the rate of decrease gets practically constant). I think this is also a better fit for language like english, where with enough amounts of conjuncts and clause phrase substitutions (with verbs and dps here and there) sentences can get to virtually infinte length. English even has a loophole of having ‘;’ which is kinda like full stop, but does not really count as one. (I do not really know how this is classified properly in linguistics, my guess is that it would a conjunction, but then some over powered kind, which allows to break regular grammar rules).

    if we pick sentence structure for each verb class (untransitive(not sure if this is what it is called, but the ones which either only require a subject or object), and transitive (normal and di), and then get similar zipfian data for occurence of these, we can cover a lot sentences. Since the sentences do not really have to mean anything (i ate broccoli is just as valid as broccoli ate me) we can then just have list of all dps, and also pick 0, 1, 2 or 3 adjective, and maybe 1 numP (iirc, we were told that we usually do not use more than 3 adjectives), so we can have a complete DP, and then just permutations all DPs with each verb class, then waited by ziph.

    if we have m number of adjectives, n number of numP, o number of distinct nouns (lets say just all nouns in a big source like wiki), then (m + 1)^3 * (n + 1) * o (the plus 1 is for null) lets call this some constant D. then for a verb, v with zipf frequency z, all possible ways would be D - v, v - D, D - v - D, D - v - D, D. This is assuming CP don’t exist.

    this would give a very big number (adding all the cases), then just divide with number of speakers (available, in a speaking condition every second). I think this should be some kind of estimate.

    Please correct me on stuff i got wrong, i am very new to this stuff.