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Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:21:57 2010 No.1366956 [Reply] [Original]

I don't know if /lit/ is familiar with this tool that was recently released by Google, but it is a searchable database that allows the user to graph the percentage of books containing a specific word or phrase over time. The database is from over 15 million books.
Why does "fuck" appear so much back in 1700? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:23:57 2010 No.1366966 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ Here's the tool, btw.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:25:57 2010 No.1366976 Apparently "wifi" was used a helluva lot back in 1675

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:26:57 2010 No.1366979 >>1366976 Aliens did it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:28:57 2010 No.1366988 weeeird. I have no idea, OP. I'd like to hear other people.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:33:57 2010 No.1367003 File: 39 KB, 947x374, tits.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Oh wow, this is great. Thanks OP

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:33:57 2010 No.1367005 >>1366988 me too.

>>	Anonymoose !!I4GBR/qkStg Thu Dec 16 23:34:57 2010 No.1367007 Probably because of the olde-Englyssche way of using F's instead of S's when writing. For example, a friend of mine had a framed page from a very old Bible on her wall containing the phrase "like an infant fucked his mother's breasts."

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:34:57 2010 No.1367008 >>1367003 Why???? See, apparently people were more fucked up back then than they are today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:34:57 2010 No.1367010 HAHAHAHAHA, google's letter recognition is mistaking the old non-terminal s as an f, most of those uses are "suck" at least from the data I've seen so far.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:36:57 2010 No.1367014 >>1367007 That is amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:39:57 2010 No.1367030 File: 43 KB, 477x201, fuck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] case in point

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:40:57 2010 No.1367033 File: 39 KB, 924x337, oh dear.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wait, what.

>>	King of Zeroes !TFB7IfWrrg Thu Dec 16 23:40:57 2010 No.1367036 >>1367007 Þoſe ain't no f's, þoſe are long ſ's

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:40:57 2010 No.1367037 File: 27 KB, 908x345, Internet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Interesting. I wonder what the meaning of it was before the establishment of the Internet as we know it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:50:57 2010 No.1367062 File: 36 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1367010 Yup, looks like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:53:57 2010 No.1367071 File: 31 KB, 900x330, chart (1).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hehe

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:53:57 2010 No.1367072 >>1366956 This shit isnt legit. I put in ipod and apparently they were very popularly towards the end of the 17th century.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:57:57 2010 No.1367081 Funny that /lit/, for being so literate, doesn't realize that "fuck" meant something totally different back then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 16 23:58:57 2010 No.1367084 >>1367071 lmfao

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 00:03:57 2010 No.1367094 The word Kaiser was very popular just before 1920

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 00:08:57 2010 No.1367111 >>1367081 it didn't, meant the same thing it does now

>>	Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. Fri Dec 17 00:09:57 2010 No.1367113 File: 97 KB, 900x677, lol.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 00:14:57 2010 No.1367123 lol the Victorian era is completely fuck-free.

>>	Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. Fri Dec 17 00:17:57 2010 No.1367127 File: 61 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] American english, look how socialism and communism are connected

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 00:50:57 2010 No.1367196 >>1367123 printing the word was banned in the mid 19th century in england

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 01:03:57 2010 No.1367216 File: 64 KB, 1022x519, Screen shot 2010-12-17 at 12.02.53 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Apparently 1660 was a big year for the arse.

>>	OP Fri Dec 17 01:27:57 2010 No.1367270 join us in a similar thread created by me on /sci/. >>>/sci/2213642

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 07:32:57 2010 No.1367606 i typed in batman

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 07:54:57 2010 No.1367618 >>1367037 The internetting invented to line swim trunks.

>>	Britfag !!CNWTxR49KsU Fri Dec 17 07:58:57 2010 No.1367619 File: 34 KB, 900x330, buggery.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Looks like I'd best break out the old time machine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:06:57 2010 No.1367621 File: 39 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The 1700's were gay times.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:08:57 2010 No.1367624 File: 60 KB, 900x330, women.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Increase of women ->decrease in good, happiness, love and money

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:12:57 2010 No.1367629 File: 33 KB, 900x330, aw65w6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fascinating.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:13:57 2010 No.1367630 >>1367624 Oh god. I lol'd

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:17:57 2010 No.1367632 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=infidel&year_start=1808&year_end=2008&corpus= 0&smoothing=1 This is really gonna keep me busy. Thanks for posting this, OP

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:17:57 2010 No.1367633 File: 55 KB, 900x330, urines.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1367629 You in the small time, brah.

>>	Britfag !!CNWTxR49KsU Fri Dec 17 08:20:57 2010 No.1367635 File: 36 KB, 900x330, good_times.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1367619 >>1367621 Good times - Good times indeedy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:23:57 2010 No.1367637 File: 6 KB, 900x330, HURR.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No surprise here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:26:57 2010 No.1367638 File: 76 KB, 914x346, Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer Jesus Christ.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Well that's interesting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:26:57 2010 No.1367640 File: 33 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] inb4 it's not a causal link, I know what I know.

Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:33:57 2010 No.1367646

All this data is off. The reason why there are higher spikes in later eras is simply because there were fewer original books before the 1800s. The Y axis lists the percentage of books that contain that word. If there are fewer books during that year, any single word will appear more often.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:42:57 2010 No.1367653 File: 30 KB, 900x330, OP is a fag.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Initially, as the amount of OPs increase, the amount of straightness decreases, then the amount of OPs decrease and straightness increases.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:53:57 2010 No.1367659 File: 85 KB, 399x300, HughLauriePrinceRegentBlackAdder3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=chastity%2Cfucking&year_start=1500&year_end=2000& amp;corpus=0&smoothing=3

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 08:59:57 2010 No.1367662 File: 57 KB, 913x339, Google Labs - Books Ngram Viewer science v religion.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Heathens!

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 09:04:57 2010 No.1367670 >>1367662 Science was natural philosophy way back when. And technology is a relatively recent word (though I'm sure you realised that already).

>>	OP Fri Dec 17 09:37:57 2010 No.1367718 >>1367632 You're welcome!

>>	OP Fri Dec 17 09:40:57 2010 No.1367723 >>1367653 CALL THE PRESSES! (srsly)

Anonymous Fri Dec 17 10:15:29 2010 No.1367777 [DELETED]

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Durch die Wolken sehe ich die Sonne.
Unser Kreuz dreht nicht, es fällt zur Erde.
Solche Rosa und Gold! Eine Wonne
Finden wir hier an die Feuerherde.

Im Sterben, sie anzündet die Himmel.
Sie gibt eine letzte ruhmreiche Schau.
Dann drapiert Dunkel an dem Gewimmel.
Alles Leben wird schwarz und grau.

So ist unser heiliges Deutschland.
Wir werden ohne Anmut untergeh’n!
Mit Fäuste voller völkischer Brand,
Sie werden unseren Endschein anseh’n!

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 17 10:30:57 2010 No.1367803 File: 52 KB, 1053x580, jagger.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Talk about a comeback. wow.

Anonymous Fri Dec 17 10:47:57 2010 No.1367825

>>1367037
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22electricity%22&tbs=bks:1,cdr:1,cd_min:1500,cd_max:
1774&lr=lang_en#sclient=psy&hl=en&lr=lang_en&tbs=bks:1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1500%2Cc
d_max%3A1774%2Clr%3Alang_1en&source=hp&q=internet&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_
rfai=&pbx=1&fp=a20cfd04ba3c5cf9

Derp.

Anonymous Fri Dec 17 17:46:57 2010 No.1368589

>>1367825
The history of Italy: from the year 1490 to 1532 - Page 66

Francesco Guicciardini - 1756 - Full view

Hence the French, who are internet '-^_ perate, and impatient of Heat, ...

> Hence the French, who are internet '-^_
> '-^
OLD SCHOOL WEEABOO.

>>	♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI Sat Dec 18 10:59:57 2010 No.1370302 yay content on lit, amazing

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 13:50:57 2010 No.1370555 File: 47 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Men: more interesting main characters since always.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 13:53:57 2010 No.1370571 File: 84 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 14:53:57 2010 No.1370743 >>1370571 why do they correspond like that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 15:05:57 2010 No.1370777 File: 42 KB, 900x330, chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fact: reading makes you a faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 15:15:57 2010 No.1370807 Apparently the internet was being talked about in early 1900's

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 15:20:57 2010 No.1370819 File: 32 KB, 918x336, s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I want to believe!

>>	Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva Sat Dec 18 15:20:57 2010 No.1370822 >>1370777 Or perhaps being a faggot compels you to read?

>>	♥onionring♥ !Rrxa7zePwI Sat Dec 18 15:28:57 2010 No.1370844 File: 33 KB, 900x330, waat.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] progress yay?

>>	Britfag !!CNWTxR49KsU Sat Dec 18 15:32:57 2010 No.1370853 >>1370777 >>1370822 Reading = Awesome. Fag lovin' = Awesome. Clearly the two are related.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 18 15:42:57 2010 No.1370877 >>1370853 Agreed.

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