Welcome to a special report from the Sean Morgan Report.

I'm your host, Sean Morgan.

I'm here with special guest Cliff High, and Cliff's going to tell us about his background with software and language analytics.

And I'm here with my guest host, Paul Ferber, who's written a free book about the whole Q&ONONS saga.

And so today we're going to be asking Cliff some questions about his research, his ideas related to the future. So Cliff, can you

give us a little bit of a background on how you started getting into forecasting?

I had this idea on an airplane flight down into Mexico City. It jilled when I was going to go do a contract in Mexico City. It was a five-hour flight. It was bumpy. It was terrible. I had to concentrate on something not to be annoyed by the other passengers. And so I came up with the, I'd been thinking about this idea for a long time, it finally jelled that the linguistics were predicted, that people cannot help themselves. They will,

okay, so here's, I actually get into research. All right. So I'll give you some numbers. So at the

time I was doing this, which was in the 90s, and it doesn't pertain now because education has changed.

But in the 90s, you could say that pertain now because education has changed. But in the 90s, you could

say that the average American could have 125,000 English words in their noggin, that they had

some emotional attachment to understanding what that word meant. They'd heard it before, so it was

not totally unfamiliar with them. But out of those 125,000 words that they may know,

their habitual work and their other patterns,

reduce that language volume down to about 2,500 words in a week,

absent specialized jargon for a job, right?

And then another 25 to 2800 words on top of that for a month. So basically,

you're using about 5,000 words habitually. And so it dawned on me. I was thinking, what is it

that prompts humans to choose outside of that range of the habitual into these far-reaching

areas that are vague, they're uncomfortable with.

Why do they go to that emotional angst of using words that make them feel bad?

Because you'll note that the way the societies work, people will censure you, not censor, but censure you, give you feedback, negative feedback, if you mispronounce words or misuse them.

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