• Optional@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I suppose if Google is the authority and “taking off” means . . what, 1980? Then yeah.

    I don’t agree, but that’s okay too.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      24 hours ago

      I mean, Google Ngrams is written language so slower than the spoken one. The point is more that Spanish < Italian.

      But if your mom or who ever telling you this is a greater authority than a company analyzing data with no agenda in this case, than that’s ok too. But maybe I’m misreading the graphs. The Italian one has kind of a peak in 1921 but a bigger one in 1814. It only goes above those random peaks around 2000 in Italian and Spanish looks less random to me before that.