Mar. 7th, 2010
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forthwrittenA couple of years ago, I worked for Oxford University Press as a sense editor on a corpus dictionary. This meant that I'd be given lots of words and their definitions, along with lots of examples of each word in use collected from a corpus, and I had to select a certain number of example sentences for each word to illustrate how a word was used.
The corpus was collected from the internet. The sentences were assigned to their senses automatically. In light of this, perhaps fiction alley might not have been a good source to include. Unfortunately I can't give links to them, but here are some of of the ones I recorded:
"As he walked back up the stairs, he could hear his brother's musing blasting from his room."
"Very now and then, the same fraises were repeated and Blaise figured that they must be arguing about something."
"Terry stayed silent trying to figure out how he should fraise what's been on his mind."
"The clear, crystal water was now spitting out scolding fountains of blood"
And not fanfic, but it is a gem:
"If you have eaten something you are allergic to, then you could go into apoplectic shock and should never have it in your diet."
The corpus was collected from the internet. The sentences were assigned to their senses automatically. In light of this, perhaps fiction alley might not have been a good source to include. Unfortunately I can't give links to them, but here are some of of the ones I recorded:
"As he walked back up the stairs, he could hear his brother's musing blasting from his room."
"Very now and then, the same fraises were repeated and Blaise figured that they must be arguing about something."
"Terry stayed silent trying to figure out how he should fraise what's been on his mind."
"The clear, crystal water was now spitting out scolding fountains of blood"
And not fanfic, but it is a gem:
"If you have eaten something you are allergic to, then you could go into apoplectic shock and should never have it in your diet."
First ever Dangly Fest?
Mar. 7th, 2010 08:28 pmcupidsbowI know I've been spamming today, but it's been my first proper weekend off in what feels like forever, so I've been reading lots of fic. I hope some of the choice quotes I've shared have appealed to you as much as they did to me.
One of the awesome things I've read, which is relevant to our interests, is Typo fic by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhymer23.
It is a work of genius, and you should all take yourselves off to read it at once. The fact that I'm currently learning to drive a new keyboard makes this even funnier than usual to me. :)
Inspired byrhymer23's example, I was wondering if we should have a ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
danglypartsiple fest, in which we write ficlets which immortalise our favourite dangly entries. What do you think? You could leave them as comments on this post if the idea appeals.
(linking the equivalent entry on LJ: http://community.livejournal.com/danglypartsiple/99073.html)
One of the awesome things I've read, which is relevant to our interests, is Typo fic by
rhymer23.It is a work of genius, and you should all take yourselves off to read it at once. The fact that I'm currently learning to drive a new keyboard makes this even funnier than usual to me. :)
Inspired by
rhymer23's example, I was wondering if we should have a danglypartsiple fest, in which we write ficlets which immortalise our favourite dangly entries. What do you think? You could leave them as comments on this post if the idea appeals.(linking the equivalent entry on LJ: http://community.livejournal.com/danglypartsiple/99073.html)