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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by cubano on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:45AM (#14137293)
I consider myself rather good at vocabulary, but I have no idea what a "warren" is...sure I could look it up but I find it odd that such an opaque reference is used in such a casual way.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by richmarr on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:54AM (#14137503)
I was a little surprised by this so looked up how common a word it is.

This Google dataset puts it as the 5,109th most frequent word, between cached and slip

https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/ma...

This one from the British National Corpus puts it 7,702nd between "pro" and "frontier"

http://www.wordcount.org/main.php

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by chrisp_dc on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:50PM (#14141712)
The Google dataset might not be the best for measuring this. Names and abbreviations rank highly. I think Warren Buffet might help contribute to the high ranking of 'warren'.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by fnord123 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:07AM (#14137353)
A warren is where rabbits and/or other burrowing creatures live. aka rabbit hole, burrow. It's common enough in children's literature like Watership Down.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by dboreham on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:32AM (#14139672)
What?? It's a perfectly ordinary very common English word.
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by Nilef on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:10AM (#14137364)
A rabbit warren
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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by mattmanser on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:01AM (#14137335)
It's a common word? Rabbit warren.

Loads of little hidiholes of separate content that are connected by a larger network.

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