Verbatim quote · from the corpus

“The practice is to operationalize the meanings you encounter (as, e.g., in calling something “hard” means a certain kind and degree of force would be needed to alter its surface) and elicit the stack of scenes and grammatical stack that would make the sample meaningful, or more meaningful, or put on the path toward meaning.”

— Adam Katz, Idioms as Operationalized Samples · Aug 23, 2023 · Bouvard Substack