Fewer 'bromances' or 'staycations' than friends and trips, Google shows
Every year the Oxford English Dictionary expands, incorporating freshly coined terms such as "bromance," "staycation" or "frenemy." However, a recent analysis has found that as a language grows over time, it becomes more set in its ways. New words are always being added, according to this study, but few become widely used and part of the standard vocabulary. "There are a lot of new hip words that are sort of popping out, but the popularity and the lifespan of these words are very short," said Matjaz Perc, a physics professor at the University of Maribor in Slovenia and one of the authors of the paper. "Our study shows that we don't really need them, so the mileage that we get out of them is very low compared to other words." 'There are a lot of new hip words, but the popularity and the lifespan of these words are very short.
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| 0 | "This Google Books Project has provided this huge platform to do this all at once," said Alex Petersen, ... |
| -0.116339 | "We're not coming up with new color names or descriptions for things we've already established," Petersen said. |
| 0 | "We're not coming up with new color names or descriptions for things we've already established," Petersen said. "A lot of the new words that we see are related to computers." |
| 0 | "In the paper we find this overwhelming trend across all languages," Petersen said. ... |
| 0 | Petersen responded that theirs was the first attempt to quantify exactly how much a language "cools" ... |
| 0 | "Because there is a similar mix from year to year, we're not comparing apples to oranges. We're comparing a basket of apples and oranges to another basket of comparable fractions of apples and oranges," Petersen said. ... |
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| 0.133549 | "They bring models and methods that I don’t have," Kretzschmar said. "I think this is an important movement in the study of language." |
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