13 January 2009

Egoism reflected in language?

No doubt we live in an obsessively self-concerned culture, but in the Gutenberg Project's list of the 40,000+ most common words in the English language in order of frequency of occurrence in their literature database, you is 1st. True, I is second, and me is tenth.

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