Professor Curzan has won several awards for teaching, including the University of Michigan's Henry Russel Award, the Faculty Recognition Award, and the John Dewey Award. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. in Linguistics from Yale University and an M.A. Thurnau Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Maybe machine learning can predict words developing for where we have not a word, but a phrase?ĭr. Maybe such information is proprietary, maybe not. Visualizing word patterns and shifts with advanced visualization tools could take a course like this to a whole new level.
#Playful chitchat crossword update#
Though there are sources for following word trends, it would be fascinating to get an update someday where tools like Google, Google Trends, AI and machine learning are utilized to inform us as to word origins (probably written analysis) and where word trending are somehow measured, observed and predicted.
Professor Curzan climbs all over the English language in a way that makes clear her passion and professionalism. This course is nearly 10 years old, but unless there is a monumental shift in the English language, perhaps born from the alternate political worlds of today.
I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to this course. I highly doubt there are teachers/speakers out in the real world that move around in that triangular pattern. It was predictive, boring, and unnatural. This lecturer seemed to make the same triangular course around the rug as the rat lecturess. Having big books laying around were just not as interesting as looking for the rats that were included in a very different set of lectures that used this same set. They just contrasted horribly with the dominant wood tone of the set. When things were less interesting, I couldn't help but focus on the the set. There just didn't seem to be many "secrets" involved in those types of issues. The actual origins of words, how they have been used and have changed over the years was more interesting than the lectures discoursing on sexuality/gender usages, vulgarity, and many of the cultural norms. This lecturer (or should I say "lecturess"?) seemed to drag her lectures on. I was intrigued by the title "The Secret Life of Word: English Words and Their Origins." I have previously viewed John McWhorter's course which I found far more interesting. I was drawn to this course through an interest in language.
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