Can we misuse computer assisted text analysis to say what a document is about. Of course!
I sent the MLA about page through the HTML List Words TAPoRware tool. This gave me a frequency sorted list of words which I have used to come up with this synopsis:
The “PMLA interests more journals (than) other humanities articles” and proceedings. The MLA runs “groups (of) international profession activities (and) bulletins”. (This helps graduate students learn to be pros at fessing.) Due to “divisions” they have two “discussion programs”, but healing is an ongoing process for the “membership”. Their “membership executive (has lots of) meetings” (see below about ruling the members) and they have “modern committees”. (Postmodern committees are coming.) There is a “bibliography (of) annual literature (around) scholarly teaching convention(s)”. This also helps us profess in a conventional fashion. In short, the “MLA (rules) over language association members”. Which is as it should be.
See below for the list of words that prove this true.
Here is the list of words with a frequency of more than 1. I have removed function words like Of, That, and The.
Pmla —— 2
Interests —— 2
More —— 2
Journals —— 2
Other —— 2
Humanities —— 2
Articles —— 2
Groups —— 2
International —— 2
Profession —— 2
Activities —— 2
Bulletin —— 2
Divisions —— 2
Discussion —— 2
Programs —— 2
Membership —— 2
Executive —— 2
Meetings —— 2
Modern —— 3
Committees —— 3
Bibliography —— 3
Annual —— 3
Literature —— 3
Scholarly —— 4
Teaching —— 4
Convention —— 4
Mla —— 5
Over —— 5
Language —— 7
Association —— 7
Members —— 11
All proven by the computer! So, what is wrong with this?