[HN Gopher] Can the Dictionary Keep Up?
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       Can the Dictionary Keep Up?
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2026-03-10 07:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ChadNauseam wrote:
       | I have been thinking about this myself. I'm working on some
       | custom dictionaries for words I discover from my corpus of movie
       | subtitles. Which I'm sure is not a new idea, but it's fun,
       | because it gives me a dictionary that only contains the words
       | that people "actually use", and with "real" example sentences.
       | (words in quotes because movie dialogue isn't 100% as real as I'd
       | like.)
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       | I'm sure this is not a remotely new idea, but I'm having fun with
       | it. I also like that I can see how common every form of every
       | word is. I was surprised to learn that almost none of the most
       | common words are nouns. And in my internal tools I can filter by
       | movies released a certain date to track changes, which is neat.
        
         | twentyfiveoh1 wrote:
         | if your movie collection is big enough that might be really
         | useful for language learning. Create your own frequency lists
         | and common phrases. I would be curious how it stacks up against
         | the written word.
        
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