Volunteer social thread #25

[pauamma]

Poll #13916 So I've been getting persistent spam in Hungarian, from one source.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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Try to figure out Hungarian grammar from it?

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Yes
7 (50.0%)

No
2 (14.3%)

Gagawin mo pa rin
7 (50.0%)

J'aime cocher des options que je ne comprends pas
5 (35.7%)

So what have you been up to?

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[forthwritten]

I'm actually collecting a corpus of spam comments on my blog. They're offering me data; it would be rude to turn it down.

Unfortunately, I think the "your corpus can only tell you about your corpus" rule applies here: you wouldn't be learning Hungarian grammar so much as learning about the grammar of Hungarian spammers.

[pauamma]

Yeah, more's the pity. But still, as a purely intellectual exercise, just to find out how much of the corpus grammar I can derive from just raw data...

[azurelunatic]

If the corpus can lead me to more of them (which I can Do Things About), I wouldn't argue with it.

Fucking spammers.