The “time monks” of Half Past Human employ a technique based on radical linguistics to reduce extracts from readings of dynamic postings on the internet into an archetypical database, which they use to calculate the rate of change of the language. The forecasts of the future are derived from these calculations, which are based on a system of associations between words and numeric values for emotional responses from those words. These ‘emotional impact indicators’ are attached to a data base of over three hundred thousand words, which serve a the lexicon from which the future forecasting is derived.

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