Friday, August 03, 2012

Canada Is The New Estonia?

This project documents every instance of the phrase "is the new" encountered from various sources in 2005. It is intended to map the iterations of a peculiarly common marketing and literary device.

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:35 pm

    I was very curious about "Canada is the new Estonia" so I googled it. Turns out, the statement is from a 2005 article about top models. Seven years later, I don't have much interest in researching how that turned out.

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  2. Thank you for that. I also don't give a damn.

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  3. Anonymous10:36 pm

    Hey you might be interested in metropho.rs which tries to do a similar thing for "x is the y of z".

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  4. Good one, anonymous.

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