On: Stranger in a Strange Land: “Big Data” programmer ...

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" not that there is much difference.". Curios, can you explain, why there is not much difference ?

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They were contemporaneous, and both pretty much hailed as the best use of English around. To my (foreign) ear, they sound similar. Some writers even go so far as fictionalizing Shakespeare sticking his finger in the KJV - I think Anthony Burgess did that.

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Each corpus is dauntingly large (arcane?), making knowledge of the source difficult to determine for casual onlookers.

Both have exerted tremendous influences (both overt and subtle) on traditional Western culture.