[Informatics] Data Analytics - How the Internet Talks

Thu Dec 10 16:50:29 AEDT 2015

Hi David. It's only in the silly season that we can get to indulge in
trifling discussions like this.

But I do call it "the internet". I think it's well-enough known to 99.9% of
the online human race what is being referred to.
The chance of confusion is low. About as low as "coworker" being
interpreted as a bovine labourer.

I suppose we could capitalise *all* common nouns, like the Germans tend to
do, I believe.

The Problem is that People get attached to Traditions that no longer apply.

But we *did* manage to get over writing "to-morrow", "to-day", "x million*s*
Dollars", and "M. Night Shyamalan makes *really* good Films" in recent
Years.
There is still Hope.

A Visit to Google ngrams
<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=internet%2CInternet&year_start=2000&year_end=2015&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cinternet%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CInternet%3B%2Cc0>
tells us that Usage of "Internet" steadily declined between 2000 and 2008,
while "internet" has risen (marginally).

I must therefore *extrapolate* (a good Word for Kids to know for
Informatics Data Management Theory, BTW) that the Usage of  "Internet" has
continued declining in the seven Years since the last available Google
Datapoint.

Regards

marK

P.S. Extensive research tells me that neither Shakespeare nor Einstein ever
ONCE referred to the "Internet" with a capital "I". So there.

On 10 December 2015 at 15:54, David Dawson <David.Dawson at wesleycollege.net>
wrote:

> This is a discussion not to be trifled with but I think I will go with W3C
> with the Internet as opposed to the “internets”
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_%22Internet%22
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> Or maybe not – now I am confused
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> http://www.dailydot.com/lol/do-you-capitalize-internet/
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> Food for thought “Then again, it’s very probable that the crowd doesn’t
> care about such things at all, and that consequently there would be no
> right way to capitalize “Internet.” What happens when a question gets put
> to the crowd, but no one cares? If a nerd debate happens in a forest and no
> normals are there to comment, or hurl the odd insult, as the case may be,
> did it ever really happen?”
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> For the record Wired Mag decapitalised it in 2004 – as they thought they
> would lead the cool way forward – but since then recapitalised it, saying
> that if you did NOT capitalise it you did not know the difference between
> the Internet and all the other internets. Oxford uses “Internet” …  (I will
> leave you with that thought).
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> With all my research I now think that Mark was being sarcastic.
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> *From:* informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark
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> Hi Paul.
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> Thanks for that reference to FiveThirtyEight.
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> But, speaking of 'How the internet talks', I notice you're a "capital 'I'
> Internet" person.
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> I happen to be a *lowercase* "internet" person.
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> I also pronounce GIF with a hard "G".
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> I wonder if you're secretly a "JIFF" man.
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> I hope we can still be friends.
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> Regards
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> Mark
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> On 10 December 2015 at 12:03, Paul Pascoe <passyworld at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> FiveThirtyEight is a website that does some very interesting Data
> Analytics.
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> Recently they have been looking at how language use is changing on the
> Internet by analysing Reddit comment data.
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> Reddit Ngram interactive
> <http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/> — a tool that lets
> you search for any term to see how frequently it has been used in Reddit
> comments since late 2007.
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> <http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/>
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> How The Internet* Talks | FiveThirtyEight
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> How The Internet* Talks *Well, the mostly young and mostly male users of
> Reddit, anyway. By Randy Olson and Ritchie King. PUBLISHED 2:00 pm EDT |
> Nov 18
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> Read more... <http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/>
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> For example, you know longer call your friend "Brah" it is now "Bruh"
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> IMO In my Opinion is what to text, not IMHO In my humble opinion, and in
> your messages make sure you are sending "Emojis" and not "Emoticons"  ....
> find out more large scale word changes here:
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> https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-favorite-examples-of-how-the-internet-talks-on-reddit/
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> <https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-favorite-examples-of-how-the-internet-talks-on-reddit/>
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> Our Favorite Examples Of How The Internet Talks
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> About two weeks ago, we published our Reddit Ngram interactive — a tool
> that lets you search for any term to see how frequently it has been used in
> Reddit comments since late 2007. And readers (pl…
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> Read more...
> <https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-favorite-examples-of-how-the-internet-talks-on-reddit/>
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