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"Foreward
 
L present work e u effort i u field d inquiry that h engaged l
attention d students d language through many generations. Only
those who h examined l history d linguistic theory can appreciate
l full significance d u experiment which employs u technique
recently developed a establish i relative frequency d use l
common conceptions d mankind as they find expression i four
languages d l present day. I u former, metaphysical age, when men
believed i l existence d innate ideas, philosophers like Leibnitz
thought that t would e possible a assemble l basic concepts d l
human mind & put them into mathematical formulas. Such u effort a
bind mentality i u logical strait jacket y discarded long ago, f
l operations d l mind e too comples e brought into categories i c
way. L empirical method seeks a approach l problem d inner
experience d l opposite end -- through language itself. Here e l
activity k gives l key a man's inner reflection d l world d
phenomena.
 
I recent anz American investigators h discovered u nov method d
approach a l problem, k d frequency d us. C e based o l
assumption k l words & locutions which appear most often e those
which e most nes f l concerns d life, & efforts h e made a
establish u scale d frequency. These resulted i l English Word
List by Thorndike & l word & idiom counts i l foreign lin
compiled for l American & Canadian committees o mondern languages
after 1925, as well as l syntax count i Spanish by Hayward
Keniston, published i 1937, & similar investigations d syntax
usage i French & German which e now i progress. Obviously, l
basis d these undertakings must e limited a u sampling d l
written linz; b l validity d l selection d sources f l studies
mentioned h e widely accepted, & l results e being used f l
teaching d English & foreign lin a u degree k n one could h
anticipated u decade ago.
 
U word h 2 factors d equal importance: form & meaning. These e
inseparable i l mind d l user; b while l word-form e u relatively
stable phenomenon i l written linz d civilized peoples,
word-meaning includes u num d possibilities, varying m l
individual word. Some words, like 'sun,' h one universally
understoon meaning, which p e extended only i metaphorical usage;
others stand at l opposite ed d l scale, such as l common verbs
'get' & 'make', each d which includes u great bundle d
possibilities. O l ot hand, even words m u wide range d semantic
values, often determinable only by l context i which they e used,
h u certain semantic focus about which l meanings cluster.
Evidence d such u basic idea appears plainly when w find words d
complex meaning m u similar semantic focus i several lin. L
correlation d l word frequencies i u group d lin may then sho u
interlingual relationship among l concepts measurable by u scale
d frequency d us."
 
[no shorthand mentioned yet.]
 
Ed d par II.
 
Al l sue,
Bob