Google on those three words and you get a tool for looking at the frequency of specific words in books from 1800 to 2000. More than one word can be graphed. For example, "liberty" and "security" are interesting because the graph shows that liberty was more frequently talked about in 1800 and for some time after, but security gets more mentions in recent history. How about "chess"?
Originally posted by JS357 Google on those three words and you get a tool for looking at the frequency of specific words in books from 1800 to 2000. More than one word can be graphed. For example, "liberty" and "security" are interesting because the graph shows that liberty was more frequently talked about in 1800 and for some time after, but security gets more mentions in recent history. How about "chess"?
Would that be only the English language? I assume so, but did they take into account the fact we are pushing 8 billion population now? I would imagine, for instance, there are probably more English speakers in India than in the US. Just a guess. With such a large increase in population, it would seem to skew the results unless you factored that in.
Originally posted by sonhouse Would that be only the English language? I assume so, but did they take into account the fact we are pushing 8 billion population now? I would imagine, for instance, there are probably more English speakers in India than in the US. Just a guess. With such a large increase in population, it would seem to skew the results unless you factored that in.
After spending 5 1/2 months in India I highly doubt that.
Originally posted by sonhouse Would that be only the English language? I assume so, but did they take into account the fact we are pushing 8 billion population now? I would imagine, for instance, there are probably more English speakers in India than in the US. Just a guess. With such a large increase in population, it would seem to skew the results unless you factored that in.
Numerous language choices covering the majority of world population. I don't know the size of the corpus in each language.
I checked the word chess. A big spike between 1800 - 1810 followed by a sharp drop. Then a fairly steady climb for the rest of the graph. Indicative of?
Originally posted by sonhouse I would imagine that there are probably more people who speak English properly and correctly in India than in the US. Just a guess.
There, I fixed it.
As a citizen of the US I offer this from my personal experience.
~P(for a day)
29 Dec '13 17:47
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