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| allen Newbie United States Joined 5074 days ago 23 posts - 73 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Thai | Message 1 of 2 31 December 2011 at 12:59pm | IP Logged |
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I just started reading this book and it's
not directly related with language learning, but as a language learner I'm finding it really interesting and entertaining so far. I wonder if anyone else has read it, and what their thought are about it. Basically the idea is that words in language can roughly be broken up into what the author calls "content words" and "function words". Content words are mostly things like nouns and verbs. Function words are things like articles and pronouns. And what the author then does is, he has a computer program written up to analyze different people's writing styles. The book looks at how different people's use of function words can tell you different things about those people. Edited by allen on 31 December 2011 at 1:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4919 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 2 of 2 31 December 2011 at 6:08pm | IP Logged |
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Looks interesting! It reminds me a bit of a web application-thing called
The Gender Genie, which attempts to predict the language of the author of a piece based largely on their use of pronons and other "function words." The page also links to a few articles describing the process better. It's an amusing little tool. I'll have to consider buying this book, though. It's just the sort of thing that I find interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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