atw: Re: Article: The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
- From: Bob Trussler <bob.trussler@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:18:13 +1100
This is a fun toy >>http://books.google.com/ngrams
On 23 March 2012 16:16, Nick Shears <nshears@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fascinating! Thanks Stuart. I needed a quick mental break just then. :-)
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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>
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Bob Trussler
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