Month: December 2020

I imagine most people here are familiar with “Doge”, a long running Internet joke focused on cute dogs having silly conversations in broken English. But not just any sort of broken English; Doge has actual trends and rules. You can…

Once again the easiest trick we can pull off with word frequencies is to try and normalize the unique vocabulary of Call of the Wild into something somewhat more bland. The idea is simple: We take a sentence, look up…

Time to take a look at the word frequencies for Call of the Wild. It was published in 1903 so we’ll be comparing it to Google’s word counts for 1890 through 1910 as well as to our “modern” set of…

Ah, December. The time of year where everyone starts romanticizing winter weather and dreaming of idyllic snow covered landscapes. Let’s put a stop to that by reading some Jack London, an author famous for his adventure stories about people heading…