Andreas, hello.
On 25 Aug 2016, at 18:22, Andreas Perstinger wrote:
If so, that means that the growth in 'racket', and more so with the
more
predictable growth in 'swift', is all the more impressive.
Well there is also a singer named Taylor Swift which IMHO would
explain this growth. :-)
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/?keyword=swift.taylor&start=20071015&end=20150831&smoothing=9
How desperate are some people?! Naming themselves after happening
programming languages just in order to get some reflected cool. What's
the world coming to?
(I have entertained the possibility I am slightly zeitgeist-challenged,
at this point)
And as much as I like Racket (the programming language), I'm pretty
sure there is a similar explanation for the word "racket" (e.g. the
sport equipment, the fraudulent scheme, ...)
But one would expect those ideas to have roughly constant currency over
the eight years of these searches, so that the term 'racket' would share
in the apparent general decline in numbers.
Daniel Prager pointed to the difference between 'clinton' visibility
over the eight years. That contrast seems more extreme than I'd have
expected, given its position within the US electoral cycle, but is very
broadly consistent with a general dilution of all terms on Reddit.
But that general dilutions means almost _any_ increase in a term's
occurrence in these graphs suggests a very substantial increase in its
significance. Comparing 'scheme' with, eg, 'haskell' and 'python'
suggests that's declined relatively modestly. Perhaps the world is
finally catching on.
All the best,
Norman
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SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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