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> when it at best only represents the future popularity of a language among those who constantly switch their languages.

This is literally in the title

>The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"

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The parent's point is that it is a very poor proxy for future language popularity.

I took this whole post as very tongue-in-cheek. No one should really be using this to predict the future. Instead, it was a fun data-analysis exercise.

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