Dead Souls

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Zipf's law is not a conspiracy theory, lol.
It's a linguistic power law probability distribution that i came across and found interesting, where a word's frequency of appearance in literature is inversely proportional to its rank of commonality in a certain and precise way. In other words, THE is the most common word, the second word appears 1/2 as frequently as the first, the third word appears 1/3 as frequently as the first and so on.
It's not some grammarian conspiracy...THAT I KNOW OF! DUM DUM DUM!
And i think it's in the "little things that cheer you up" thread (for fuck's sake) because i thought it was cool.

Also, A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF US related to and were moved by the personages we are discussing here. If i am to understand this thread correctly, it's why we are discussing them.

Edit: and, goddamn, how are you so sure mel brooks is going to be dead soon. He could live another 10 years.

Tell that to George Zipf.