It’s good to see that important, important work is being done in this area of semantic analysis: “geek” vs “nerd” at the blog slackpropagation. I think the author (with some commenters) has a point in realizing that using Twitter as his data source possibly limits and no doubt skews his results. As he mentions, it would require work with the Ngram corpus or suchlike to be more thorough. Nevertheless, I appreciate the attention to detail in his work.
귀신 듣는데 떡소리 한다
ghost hear-CIRCUM rice-cake-sound do-PRES
[It] makes a rice-cake sound that ghosts hear.
Apparently Korean ghosts like rice-cake, so if you make rice-cake
noise near ghosts, they are happy. Hence, “Music to one’s ears.”
I’m not really sure what “rice-cake noise” might sound like, though – Korean rice-cakes are kind of doughy and keep quiet for the most part.
What I’m listening to right now.
Client (feat. D. McCarthy), “Suicide Sister.”
