[LINK] Literary Value Found Wanting

[Roger Clarke]

The subject-headings of auto-generated spam appear to contain mostly:
-   names;
-   nouns;  and
-   adjectives.

But there seem to be few verbs (except to the extent that words that 
are names, nouns or adjectives are also verbs).  Or indeed adverbs, 
prepositions or conjunctions.

Does anyone have means to hand to estimate the proportions of each 
part of speech in the english language?  (For example, the count of 
conjunctions is presumably infinitesmal in comparison with the count 
of nouns).

The verbs-only from the small, non-random sample below seem to be:
bought, driven, detonate, inculcate, replicate, redden.

The reason I noticed was that I'd given up on haiku, and was looking 
to see if there was some half-decent dada-ist poetry in there 
somewhere.

Well, it's the end of a holiday weekend, and I needed to lighten up a bit.



groat jovanovich allergy vague existent striptease tribute borax

goethe illegible detente brooke dent apprehension dutchess hough 
agway brother frugal idea bipartisan projector confrontation dung 
bristle dress blutwurst jinx crabapple chemist geography ragging 
athwart several ingot bien lase bought agrarian driven aventine 
chimique apologetic mercenary fischer areaway detonate hindmost

neoprene nor handiwork phagocyte attendant bullyboy baltimorean 
ichneumon mire inculcate kangaroo credential marlborough replicate 
huxley affinity cyclotomic beet redden

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