What can Wikipedia stats tell us about Ukraine (and Russia)? February 28, 2023 Read more about Ukrainian language trends here Читать на русском Background info Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular websites, maintains accessible, detailed statistics on who visits the site. With a simple Python script, it’s possible to scrape this data and do some analysis on it.
Ukrainian language trends after the Russian invasion November 28, 2022 Читать на русском Google Trends is a hidden gem. It’s a tool provided by Google that allows you to see search trends over time, or compare which search term is more popular. Many people use the tool to compare trending topics or celebrities (Kim Kardashian vs. Taylor Swift, soccer vs American football, burgers vs pizza, etc.) But I’ve found the tool very useful for uncovering hidden social variables. ...
Рост использования украинского языка после российского вторжения 28 ноября 2022 г. text in English Google Trends - это скрытая жемчужина. Это инструмент, предоставляемый Google, который позволяет увидеть тренды поиска во времени или сравнить, какой запрос более популярен. Многие используют Google Trends для сравнения тем или знаменитостей (Ким Кардашьян против Тейлор Свифт, футбол (европейский) против американского футбола, бургеры против пиццы и т.д.). Однако я обнаружил, что сайт очень полезен для выявления скрытых социальных переменных. ...
Russian has no word for “Privacy” 10 May 2015 I like to point out the sheer number of words in English, compared to a language like Russian; every word in Russian, including dialectal, archaic and nonstandard forms, amounts to around 300,000 words at most. That’s barely half of the Oxford English Dictionary, which itself is missing countless slang terms, neologisms and adopted foreign words. Yet we anglophones are never content. I’ve seen countless tabloid articles and blog posts about supposed “words that English desperately needs,” griping about how we don’t have a word for “a face badly in need of a fist” like German does. ...