Wiktionary's same-sitting minting of 'wokitude' and fresh 'chud' derivatives gives upstream vocabulary a foot in both camps the same week Sally Rooney's UK ban draws a celebrity defense, upstream wordplay and mainstream activism pointing at the same polarized moment without citing each other.
how language was measured today
Counted layer · the radar, 166 of 236 sources reporting
Language's day ran 10.2 per 100 sources; usual is 14.5
counted 16:05 UTC · per 100 reporting · against 50 stamped days
1 day 10.2 −0.81 sd 3 days 15.4 −1.03 sd 7 days 16.2 −1.40 sd 0 10 20 per 100 reporting · tick = a stamped day 1 day 10.2 −0.81 sd 3 days 15.4 −1.03 sd 7 days 16.2 −1.40 sd 0 10 20 per 100 reporting tick = a stamped day The idea Each window counts the sources a day publishing on language, per 100 sources reporting, so a day when more sources report does not read as busier. The signed number is today’s distance from its usual, in standard deviations.
Look for The dot is today; each tick is one of the 50 stamped days before it. The band is the usual range, one standard deviation each side: 30 of 50 days fall in it. All three windows sit below their usual. The numbers -0.81 1 day, in standard deviations
10.2 sources a day per 100, today
14.5 its usual, the mean of 50 days
50 stamped days behind it
Limits It says the volume moved; it does not say why. It counts sources publishing, not a share of all talk. Under 14 stamped days a window reads early, a hollow dot; under 7 it does not print. How it is measured Per 100: sources publishing on the domain in the window, a day, over sources reporting that day, times 100. Usual: the mean of up to 56 stamped days before this sheet, one per scan, this sheet’s own scan left out; the spread is their standard deviation. Deviation: today less the usual, over the spread. src/data/cover-2026-10-22.json counted.domains, scripts/build-cover.py rep_scores.
This is the counted layer: how much the feeds we read published about language, per source reporting, against what they usually publish. The story above is the heard layer, written from sources. They are kept apart on purpose.
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