Food and Linguistics

[liuzhou]

Am interesting article in the Financial Times.

 

 

‘We analysed thousands of US menus and found we could predict prices just from the words’

 

[dcarch]

Am interesting article in the Financial Times.

 

I wonder how many times "awesome" and "yummy" are used.

 

dcarch

[liuzhou]

I wonder how many times "awesome" and "yummy" are used.

 

dcarch

 

Er. Never.

Did you consider reading the article to assuage your wonder?

 

"Yummy" is very irritable, I agree. Sounds like the user is nine years old.

Edited August 30, 2014 by liuzhou (log)

[DianaB]

It's a good article and I'm looking forward to the book on which it is based. That particular issue of the FT Magazine had food writing as it's theme. I think you can read the magazines free on the FT website. Rowley Leigh is their main cookery contributor and I enjoyed his article in that same issue on 'foraging'. His pages are always worth a look in my view, whether or not you will want to make his weekly recipe.

[Duvel]

Interesting indeed ... Thanks!

[TeakettleSlim]

Unrelated to the article above, but since the topic title is fairly general, thought I'd add a nice blog post I read recently on the history of the words 'tea' and 'chai': http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2014/08/tea-if-by-sea.html?m=1

[gfweb]

Amusing little piece. It does draw rather over-broad conclusions based on scanty data. I hope his real science has more rigor.

[liuzhou]

Unrelated to the article above, but since the topic title is fairly general, thought I'd add a nice blog post I read recently on the history of the words 'tea' and 'chai': http://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2014/08/tea-if-by-sea.html?m=1

 

Good! I deliberately made the title 'general' in the hope that other food related language issues would turn up. There are many.