tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post282874070538481943..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: "A small hump around 1700"Jenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-74322821752859963612011-01-14T22:45:26.456-05:002011-01-14T22:45:26.456-05:00The past month has been one delightful conversatio...The past month has been one delightful conversation about the descending s after another--the situation takes different names depending on the company present. The OCR problems in Google Books are the other gigantic source of error, but all of this makes me super-excited, not dismayed! As my friends are all joking around about how ngrams prove their dissertations, I have my own rejoinder about how culture (well, culturnomics) really is constituted by error.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245014144885257943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-19299458477001631612011-01-14T08:03:05.042-05:002011-01-14T08:03:05.042-05:00Ray, you shatter my illusions!.... - but yes, I se...Ray, you shatter my illusions!.... - but yes, I see what you're saying!Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-90208125002089102892011-01-13T21:40:31.954-05:002011-01-13T21:40:31.954-05:00Sorry to be a boring toad, but occurrences of swea...Sorry to be a boring toad, but occurrences of swear-words pre-1800 in the Google N-gram database are virtually always OCR errors. Older occurrences of "fuck" are mostly "suck" with a medial s; and the c-word likewise mostly Latin "sunt".Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-51014734314756586042011-01-12T15:27:13.323-05:002011-01-12T15:27:13.323-05:00That (excellent) sentence is really pushing the li...That (excellent) sentence is really pushing the limits of plausible deniability...Zedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.com