Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: My erstwhile colleagues working in #CorpusLinguistics would no doubt have something ...

My erstwhile colleagues working in #CorpusLinguistics would no doubt have something to say about this chart, but it does perhaps tell us something about the growing exhaustion with 'progress' when all around looks like sh*t...

We shouldn't read too much into such shifts in linguistic emphasis (it may be language use rather than material conditions driving the change , but equally its unlikely to be nothing to do with the current & past global & national crises

h/t John Burn-Murdoch (FT)