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corpus fetishism

noun

Etymology

Probably coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000122.htmlhttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000058.html

Definitions

  1. An insistence that the only valid source of illustrative examples of words or language…

    An insistence that the only valid source of illustrative examples of words or language constructs is from the corpus (existing body of literature) of the language

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for corpus fetishism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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