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One of my favourite bits in doing translation studies was when we got to tinker about with corpora. For example, did you know that in the British National Corpus, the word ‘pandemonium’ is generally used with a light or comic affect, whereas in the Translational English Corpus — a collection of works where English is the target language of a translation — ‘pandemonium’ is used far more seriously?
Well, although Google Ngram Viewer doesn’t have a Translational English compartment quite yet, it is still very interesting for corpus nerds like me. I completely forgot to mention in my past post on buzzwords, that I’d plotted to see how ‘mimetic’ stacked up against other buzzwords by plotting their use over a 200 year history.
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