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        Date: 2023-03-26 07:58:05+00:00
        From: Jan Rybicki <jkrybicki@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.480: excitement everywhere all the time, but no Oscar

Ha! And I've noticed quite recently that English novels (from all English
speaking countries) translated into Polish contain a significantly higher
frequency of "nadzieja" [hope], because of all those "I hope" that one hedges
with in English. But that's hedging, somewhat far, far away from superlatives...
I hope for the best,
Jan


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              Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 36, No. 480.
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        Date: 2023-03-25 17:17:29+00:00
        From: Christian-Emil Smith Ore <c.e.s.ore@iln.uio.no>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.478: excitement everywhere all the time, but
no Oscar

And also synchronic cultural differences. In USA superlative and adverbs like
fantastic are more frequent than in Nordic languages. Many years ago the Swedish
lexicographer Martin Gjellerstam analysed a corpus of trivial literature
(novels) and accidentally observed that the novels translated from English (US)
had a much higher frequency of the word 'gud' (God) than the rest and definitely
higher than the average of Swedish texts.

Best,

Christian-Emil


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        Date: 2023-03-23 21:40:25+00:00
        From: Neven Jovanović <filologanoga@gmail.com>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.470: excitement everywhere all the time, but
no Oscar

Dear Thomas,

you are describing a static culture, while Willard drew our attention
to a change that he feels is happening in the society (people used not
to be excited all the time -- and this is not "intercultural", because
Willard lives in that culture, contrary to me, you, or Jan). Whether
the formulas and standard phrases have changed, or the emotional
temperature has changed, or human behaviour, something has caused the
change. Jan offered one or two hypotheses to explain the cause.

This is important for Humanist because in our research we also have to
deal both with the persistent and the changing. Not to mention that
the Digital Humanities culture itself had changed, and people felt
that.

Best,

Neven

Neven Jovanovic, Zagreb



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