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by giancarlostoro 433 days ago
I think if you rule out insanely common words, it might get scary accurate.
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Actually, the way that these things work is usually by focusing exclusively on the usage patterns of very common (top 500) words. You get better results by ignoring content words in favor of the linking words.
Interesting, I think it also doesn't help that outside of a throw away on a blue moon, I don't really use alts...