4 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2023
    1. Die Auswertung solcher Materialmengen erwies sich als prekär, und im Falle der häufigsten Wörter, z.B. mancher Präpositionen (allein das Wort m "in" ist über 60.000 Mal belegt) oder elementarer Verben mußte man vor den Schwierigkeiten kapitulieren und das Material aussondern.

      The preposition m "in" appears more than 60,000 times in the corpus, a fact which becomes a bit overwhelming to analyze.

  2. Mar 2021
    1. Fires an invalid event at the element

      First time I've seen/heard it said that an event is fired at some target. But it sure makes sense, since it matches how "fire" is used in other senses (like shooting a gun).

  3. Oct 2018
    1. His most famous contribution to the study of grammar may have been his tentative suggestion that sentences ending with a preposition
  4. Jan 2017