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by causality0
2497 days ago
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Beat me to it. To expound upon this, Japanese is not unique in basically adhering to Zipf's law. In many organization data sets, including the vocabulary of most languages, the most commonly used word is twice as common as the second-most, and the second-most word is twice as common as the third-most, and so forth. |
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Normally Zipf's law refers to the frequency being inversely proportional to rank - i.e. the 3rd most common element would be 1/3 as frequent as the first, not 1/4th.