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Lauren Klein on Data Feminism (Part 2): Tracing Linguistic Innovation

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Is There a Pattern in the Evolution of Language?

The word equality goes in the opposite direction. It makes me wonder if there's a pattern that we can observe here that is related to patternsn in evolutionary dynamics. I mean, one can see how certain external pressures might make a word need to be used in a more precise way then it had been in the past. And i'm curious how you understand these two different trajectories in the work, and in whatYou think it's, it means about the evolution of language under certain discursive constraints and so on.

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