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I searched for "epic", and one of the suggestions was "epic-as-fuck". I'm curious about how this phrase was selected as an adjective. What sort of rules do you use to find adjective phrases?

On a side note: is "fuck" very epic, or not very epic? I have no idea...

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I'm using the part of speech tagger from Python's NLTK to find the adjectives (http://nltk.org/). Sometimes it selects phrases instead of individual words, I'm not using any extra rules to do this.

I've left the phrases in because I think they're interesting and informative. Do you agree, or do you find them distracting?

Not sure about your side note!

Given that there are individual ideas that require more than one word to express, including adjective phrases makes sense. I was actually impressed by their inclusion. I did notice a false positive though: "integrity.While"

I hadn't heard of the NLTK before. Thanks for pointing me to it!

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