At 08:41 PM 3/1/02 -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/1/2002 2:56:38 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:>But is a mass of text a text? Some masses of texts, sure. Maybe even all masses, can you think of a case where it wouldn't be?I would like to see an example. The mass of texts in my library is not obviously a text. What does it collaborate to do or have done to it that clearly marks it as a text?
If the mass of texts in your library were treated as a single corpus for research, such as word frequency analysis, then it would be a text.
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