So far I can't help. I checked out "fierce" on my corpus of plant biology
and it seems that, at least in academic writing, plants and their
biologists just aren't fierce. Just to be certain I tried "feroce" in a
corpus of popular scientific French, here we do find "controverse",
"combat" and "competition", I daresay a magazine like New Scientist would
give similar results. The effect of genre will be interesting. For the
moment I can only supply negative evidence, hope to be more positive on
future word choices.
Best
Geoffrey
At 15:54 09/06/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Corpora-people
>
>I've just had an idea for a collaborative venture that might benefit
>the whole language-research community.
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