Any thoughts about this one? (click to enlarge)
Hate to tell you this, but it’s not going to end until you end it. You think people to whom…
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4 responses to “Another nGram: Charity vs Social Security”
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It’s a great tool but it is too easy to abuse. Here for example is a graph that largely contradicts yours for no obvious reason. I fear people will use nGram to confirm and justify their preconceptions. The presenter’s remark about Reagan being a prime example.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=charity%2Csocial+security&year_start=1985&year_end=2008&corpus=6&smoothing=3LikeLike
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I tried one on lowercase liberty against security.
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=liberty%2Csecurity&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Liberty starts high and goew low against security that starts low and goes high.LikeLike
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Well, enlarging it and observing, it’s pretty clear what it’s saying, tom. And yes, it is correct.
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Hi there Tom, good fun this, guess who comes out tops in the end with cops and robbers?
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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