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Copy right? [1]

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Date: 2026-03-01  

Clearing out my drafts. The vast majority are being deleted because OMG they’re bad, awful, I don’t know what I was thinking. While this was silly it was also fun.

Copyright. It’s a curious concept that has meaning and is also meaningless. Consider the following poem. I didn’t choose the words. I didn’t choose the word order. Both were done by a World of writers who’s words were counted. The fifty most commonly used words in English language in published writing. I’ve broken them up into lines and stanzas and now I own the copyright.

First Fifty the of and to in a is that for it as was with be by on not he I this are or his from . at which but have an had they you were their one all we can her has there been if more when will would who so no

I can barely hear over all the applause. There must be millions of people cheering. Thank you, thank you, thank you one and all.

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