atw: Re: Article: The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
- From: Nick Shears <nshears@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:16:39 -0700
Fascinating! Thanks Stuart. I needed a quick mental break just then. :-)
Nick
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 3:11 PM
To: Austechwriter
Subject: atw: Article: The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
"Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and
English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team
of physicists published a paper drawing on Google's massive collection of
scanned books. They claim to have identified universal laws governing the
birth, life course and death of words."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285610212146258.html
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