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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by franciscop on Saturday August 17, 2019 @05:20AM (#20723038)
When I was learning English, the most memorable/epic lesson of advanced English I ever took was trying to understand what we were told was an "advanced" poem; the Jabberwock!

We were a class of 6-8 students, in pairs making our guesses of what the words that we didn't "understand" meant. We all got pretty advanced ideas and all got to similar conclusions. The teacher would tell us afterwards how those were made up words, and we were all in awe at how much we still understood and agreed upon the meaning of the words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

Sidequestion, is this poem taught in schools in the US by any chance?

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by grepballsoffire on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:06AM (#20723172)
Australian here. I studied it in school and so have my kids. They were equally amazed at how much meaning they could bestow on the words.
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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by FroshKiller on Saturday August 17, 2019 @09:50AM (#20724025)
Yes. We even did a similar exercise in my class.
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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by sweeneyrod on Saturday August 17, 2019 @08:29AM (#20723679)
GEB by Douglas Hofstadter has an interesting section on translations of the Jabberwocky http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/poem/hofstadter.h...
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