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In the article “Words that Have Made History, or Modeling the Dynamics of Linguistic Changes” Maciej Eder explored how collected data on words in different languages could demonstrate to people how the language has changed over time. The reader is informed of the methods that are used to find said changes in language, how the researchers first set a hypothesis of how a language changed and then they take data from before and after the time in which the language changed in order to see if the language really did change based on randomly selected words. The article then goes on to explain that even with this data it is tough to recognize of there was a language change because if they are taking random words and the change is based on a single word the data may be skewed. I think that exploring language change is an extremely interesting thing to use data for. I would have never thought that trend lines could be applied to the english language. In JN’s post they address how sometimes studies can be irrelevant by saying, “I think using this data to find general trends has the potential to be very misleading.” I think this may be able to be applied to these trend lines, I feel like taking random words to see changes in certain words or certain parts of the language may not be very effective and may create data that we can draw conclusions from that may or may not make sense.