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I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', '
by blintz 1y ago
I'm surprised at how normal some of the unseen words are. I expected them to all be archaic or niche, but many are pretty reasonable: 'congregant', 'definer', 'stereoscope'.
- gkoberger 1y agoFor what it's worth, there's 1.7bn posts on Bluesky according to this: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats The dictionary site has only checked 4,920,000 posts, which is 0.28% of all messages.
- SomewhatLikely 1y agoIt's likely that the commenter has read less than 5 million posts worth of text though. So perhaps this still points to a lack of diversity in content.
- wolfram74 1y agoYou got me wondering. Supposing the average post is 10 words, and a typical page of text is 250 words, that would only be ~50 pages of text a day over the last 10 years. Which I don't think I manage, but over 20 years I am probably in that window.
- IshKebab 1y agoIt now claims to have checked 11 million posts but only seen "the" 16 thousand times. I'm not sure its numbers are entirely reliable.
- awinter-py 1y agodentel, exclaustrations, gryding, datolite, frabbing?
- Kye 1y agoI can't keep up with all these new Pokemon.