Exploring the Use of "Stretchable" Words in Social Media (IMAGE)
Caption
The tree of laughter. This spelling tree for stretched versions of the word 'ha' shows many of the different ways these words get spelled as they get stretched. The patterns of the tree represent the spellings of the words, with the initial 'h' at the root, and the following letters branching right for an 'a' and left for an 'h'. Thicker paths represent more dominant patterns, with many words stopping at an internal node after a few branchings. A few of the longer patterns reaching a terminal node are annotated with stars. The inset plot shows how frequent different stretched versions of 'ha' are based on how long they are stretched. A few points are annotated with example stretched versions of that length, but the point represents all stretched versions of that length. Points for an even number of characters tend to be higher because of the tendency to perfectly alternate 'h' and 'a' as in 'hahaha...'.
Credit
Gray et al, 2020
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