Where Do We Go From Here? -
Chaos or Community? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. makes a plea for the future of humanity
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Saturday, 21 January 2017
quote [ Thanks to the internet, the American language seems to be exploding at an almost unclockable pace. Polyglot social media has exposed American English, with its historically promiscuous embrace of new idioms, to more digital pidgins, foreign words, microdialects, pictograms, neologisms, and cryptic symbols than any one language user can ever expect to brook. ]
This is mostly a test of the "prep post" system. I hope you find it interesting, anyway.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 7:42pm GMT on 21st January
While I'm sure the internet has done a lot to connect people and change langue in and of itself, I'm not sure that this "surge" is that language is being written down in a way that can be analyzed by computers.
A nice example of this is the programming language R that has a function (a short program compiled by nerd) that can scan for "emotionally associated words" (which has culture issue and sexist biases).
For my project, based off a Stanford dataset for a longer and better paper, I analyzed the /r/randomactsofpizza (araop or raop- I can't remember) from the years 2012-2015 and tried to sort out differences between successful and unsuccessful requests- including attitudes/upvotes/community involvement on all of Reddit/community involvement in that particular subreddit.
Given that English is such a dynamic language I'd go out on a limb and say that this is the fault of science "journalism" vs a new phenomena (but you can't really measure it compared to the past because the data isn't really there written down in a manner that can be easily accessed.
lilmookieesquire said @ 7:43pm GMT on 21st January
While I'm sure the internet has done a lot to connect people and change langue in and of itself, I'm not sure that this "surge" isn't just that language is being written down in a way that can be analyzed by computers.
A nice example of this is the programming language R that has a function (a short program compiled by nerd) that can scan for "emotionally associated words" (which has culture issue and sexist biases).
For my project, based off a Stanford dataset for a longer and better paper, I analyzed the /r/randomactsofpizza (araop or raop- I can't remember) from the years 2012-2015 and tried to sort out differences between successful and unsuccessful requests- including attitudes/upvotes/community involvement on all of Reddit/community involvement in that particular subreddit.
Given that English is such a dynamic language I'd go out on a limb and say that this is the fault of science "journalism" vs a new phenomena (but you can't really measure it compared to the past because the data isn't really there written down in a manner that can be easily accessed.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 7:42pm GMT on 21st January [Score:1 Interesting]
While I'm sure the internet has done a lot to connect people and change langue in and of itself, I'm not sure that this "surge" isn't just that language is being written down in a way that can be analyzed by computers.
A nice example of this is the programming language R that has a function (a short program compiled by nerd) that can scan for "emotionally associated words" (which has culture issue and sexist biases).
For my project, based off a Stanford dataset for a longer and better paper, I analyzed the /r/randomactsofpizza (araop or raop- I can't remember) from the years 2012-2015 and tried to sort out differences between successful and unsuccessful requests- including attitudes/upvotes/community involvement on all of Reddit/community involvement in that particular subreddit.
Given that English is such a dynamic language I'd go out on a limb and say that this is the fault of science "journalism" vs a new phenomena (but you can't really measure it compared to the past because the data isn't really there written down in a manner that can be easily accessed.
