Remember folks, at Christmas it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.
Some Christmas craft inspiration, found in the art supplies by a friend of mine who is a high school teacher. She now uses them as decorations on her Christmas tree.
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Mapping the United Swears of America
Swearing varies a lot from place to place, even within the same country, in the same language. But how do we know who swears what, where, in the big picture? We turn to data – damn big data. With great computing power comes great cartography.
Jack Grieve, lecturer in forensic linguistics at Aston University in Birmingham, UK, has created a detailed set of maps of the US showing strong regional patterns of swearing preferences. The maps are based on an 8.9-billion-word corpus of geo-coded tweets collected by Diansheng Guo in 2013–14 and funded by Digging into Data. Here’s fuck:
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