Summary: Some fun with Google n-grams
Background? Watch this TED n-grams video.
We are more and more obsessed with the times:
while some years were more important than other:
As you may well guess, 2000 was in vogue much before we lived through it:
We are more and more obsessed with time:
especially in the 1990s, when we were discussing... the 1980s - the most acute (nomen omen) period to date:
Interestingly enough, as far as future is concerned, in the 1960s we did not think of it, living in the present, while nowadays, we mostly care about the 2080s:
[tbc]
See more fun n-grams e.g. here and here.
Quick discoveries:
citizen vs consumer vs client,
Islam vs Christianity (from 1870, as before Christianity was winning hands down)
pederast,homosexual,homoerotic,homophile,
paederast vs pederast vs pederastic vs pederasty
homosexual vs lesbian vs heterosexual (all subjects most in vogue in 1990s, now people do not write about it that much)
my short list of objectively most discussed phobias
(PC) terms for Negroes
Euphemism treadmill:
lame,crippled,handicapped,disabled,physically challenged
shell shock,battle fatigue,posttraumatic stress disorder
...
