Culturomics: Words have life cycles

2 points by cocoy 14 years ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

A must read. Christopher Shea writes: "The authors even identified a universal "tipping point" in the life cycle of new words: Roughly 30 to 50 years after their birth, they either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse."

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