PUBLIC MARKS with tags technology & language

Today, I want to talk about one of the byproducts of all this mediocrity. Today I want to talk about the all-out assault on the English language and the role technology plays in that unprovoked and dastardly attack. I especially want to talk about the ways dumbing down the language is not only seen as acceptable, but is tacitly encouraged as the status quo.

This is a demonstration of a language guesser, as proposed in Cavnar, Trenkle, N-Gram-Based Text Categorization. It's implemented in Perl. You can get the Perl script under certain copyright restrictions here. For free! No commercial version available! Th