On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Charlene Brusso <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wonder what the spike is for mysteries around 1630? > Shakespeare's Tempest, Marlowe's Faust, the general interest in magic and theater. I guess. I don't know how these graphs work. I think they are based on the number of times the word "mystery" is used in English writing. Try it with "penny dreadful." Or "vaudeville." Sarah/Sally > > -cb > > > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:06 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Obviously, you should be writing fantasy instead. >> >> >> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fantasy&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 >> >> Now, if somebody could possibly explain mystery to me: >> >> >> http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=mystery&year_start=1600&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 >> >> Steve >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Charlene Brusso > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
