1997-01-25 - language drift

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From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
To: meditation@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 22:01:40 -0800 (PST)
To: meditation@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: language drift
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One of my projects involves tracking language drift; i.e the relative
change in word frequency on the internet as time goes by.  This is
useful for predicting concept movement, and the anglisization
rates of non-English language countries.

Now, one day while browsing the frequencies from the 10 billion
word corpus, what do I see?

God     	2,177,242
America 	2,178,046
designed        2,181,106
five    	2,189,194
December        2,190,028

;)

-Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>





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