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Fascism may be poised to join an elite pool of words — among them science, integrity, socialism, bailout, truthiness and the slang interjection "w00t" — that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has selected as word of the year.
As countless Losers who find me annoying and exasperating know, I'm apt to reply to a contest suggestion, "We did that". or "We did that TWICE". But here we are in Week 1280 of The Style Invitational with the sixth running of our "air quotes" contest, using the very same pool of words and names as in the previous contests.
Linguists agree that speakers and listeners have their own goals for simplifying communication: Speakers prefer a small pool of words that they can quickly retrieve from memory, whereas listeners prefer words with a single, unambiguous meaning--and that requires a large vocabulary.
If we want to relate a complex emotion, we could dive deep into our selves, unpack the feeling, and search the finite pool of words in our native tongues for the right ones, or we could take a selfie.
Words were selected from a pool of words validated in a perceptual clarification task (Ter Laak, unpublished Master's thesis), in which these words were recognized most consistently and rapidly as neutral and negative words under minimal presentation conditions.
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Since top-weighted TF IDF words provided the largest overlap with the user click-words in the documents in our data, we built a machine learning model with novel features to recognize click-words from a pool of candidate words with high TF IDF weights.
The subject was asked to discriminate between 10 words from the list learning task and 10 distracter words that were drawn from the same pool of 50 words.
A pool of "dentistry related words" was constructed by translating English REALD-99 [ 6] words into Arabic.
If most artistic endeavour can be seen as a selection and reorganisation from a limited pool of material (the words of a language, the gradations of colour on the spectrum, the notes of a scale) then the answer is not very much.
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