I've read that the engine does have a bias. I haven't seen it personally due to my limited use of it but apparently there are a lot of scientific literature and large numbers of incorrectly dated and categorized texts. So due to these errors, its hard to use this tool to study language. The increase... Continue Reading →
N-gram: What I saw
So I first decided to look up anarchy and apocalypse because of P.B. Shelleys "The Mask of Anarchy". I wanted to see how often it was used, first, in British English (2009) and then in Spanish (2008) just for fun. And also romanticism and romantic together then just romanticism by itself in the same British... Continue Reading →
N-Gram: What does it do?
So what is N-gram? At first I thought it was going to be a version of instagram, but that is very much not the case.It actually took me some time to wrap my head around this tool because although its a search engine, its a search engine format I'm not use to. The Google N-gram... Continue Reading →
Its a beautiful day here by the lake.
“Style means the right word. The rest matters little.” —Jules Renard