Vocabularies of forum-goers

[Gabu]

I also decided to start to make a set of data, for interest's sake, beginning with Michael Z, of posters' word counts vs. the number of posts they've made.

Here's what the graph looks like so far:

[Gabu]

My posts seem to be of above average word count

Yes, yours was one of the outliers.

I don't think anyone's going to beat phknrocket's 17,000 unique words in less than 4,000 posts, though.  I don't know how he did it, but he's said a lot of words.

[Gabu]

TheWildCard

Total words used: 7465

governor - 323
pacific - 233
people - 209
bush - 199
think - 193
president - 188
first - 187
great - 170
because - 166
right - 161
region - 154
election - 149
close - 140
party - 140
state - 137
senator - 122
wildcard - 122
elections - 111
republican - 111
person - 101
going - 100
gustaf - 100
kerry - 100
believe - 97
candidate - 97

Three guesses regarding what TheWildCard's position was in fantasy politics, and the first two don't count.

[Gabu]

Brian from Family Guy

Total words used: 10231

think - 373
should - 294
bush - 278
people - 225
kerry - 217
schwartz - 216
republican - 189
liberal - 188
brown - 176
philadelphia - 174
right - 167
state - 155
northeast - 153
democrat - 151
philly - 150
issues - 145
hoeffel - 130
santorum - 130
conservative - 126
social - 123
being - 112
district - 111
section - 110
better - 107
democratic - 107

Other notable words:

melissa - 104
allyson - 103
keystone (phil) - 103
catholic - 99
pennsylvania - 75

No surprises here.

TexasGurl

Total words used: 6710

right - 123
senate - 100
think - 100
people - 87
bush - 84
party - 84
senator - 70
voted - 61
president - 57
republican - 56
democrat - 54
support - 53
election - 49
maybe - 48
running - 47
texas - 46
better - 45
court - 45
kerry - 45
district - 44
clinton - 41
first - 40
state - 40
least - 39
harry - 38

Other notable words:

wisconsin - 37
texasgurl - 35

[Gabu]

Alcon

Total words used: 13477

state - 612
bush - 599
think - 580
people - 562
republican - 542
kerry - 532
county - 479
democrat - 362
party - 298
states - 292
democratic - 273
conservative - 271
district - 270
election - 262
right - 257
liberal - 253
libertarian - 249
results - 249
candidate - 220
washington - 219
south - 200
democrats - 197
however - 191
pretty - 186
agree - 185

[Gabu]

StatesRights

Total words used: 12224

bush - 406
people - 306
right - 290
kerry - 277
think - 270
florida - 260
believe - 246
state - 233
states - 220
party - 209
president - 194
democrats - 167
government - 150
election - 148
south - 142
support - 141
agree - 136
republican - 134
years - 129
first - 128
against - 124
option - 121
great - 117
rights - 107
nation - 102

Other notable words:

lincoln - 97 (28th)
tyrant - 10

C'mon, States, let us know what you really feel about Lincoln.

[Gabu]

Just for fun, while I'm waiting for others to finish:

Machiavelli

Total words used: 740

union - 18
great - 6
nation - 6
dedicated - 4
birth - 3
confederate - 3
fire-eaters - 3
florida - 3
least - 3
lincoln - 3
people - 3
pictures - 3
south - 3
abortion - 2
abraham - 2
anti-union - 2
better - 2
camera - 2
carolina - 2
cashcow - 2
civil - 2
conceived - 2
dedicate - 2
devotion - 2
exactly - 2

Other notable words:

negroes - 1
negro-hater - 1
negro-haters - 1

[Gabu]

I wouldn't mind a redo, Gabu

I wonder how many times I've said 'hug' or '*hughughug*' (and variants) (cuz IIRC the *hughughug* craze started after I first requested this)

Let's find out.

[Gabu]

Pick me Gabu! Pwetty pwease

ok

[Gabu]

Lewis Trondheim

Total words used: 25651 (high score!)

county - 926
seats - 681
state - 656
think - 652
south - 648
right - 631
votes - 614
people - 583
party - 547
north - 533
first - 518
course - 506
election - 485
because - 434
bush - 412
counties - 401
district - 376
voted - 365
labour - 364
republican - 356
three - 331
states - 324
elections - 313
voting - 310
result - 294

[Gabu]

For the record, here's what the graph looks like now:



Since someone mentioned that it might be a natural log relationship, so I plotted this next graph:



I thought that this bore a striking resemblance to a parabola, so I plotted this third graph:



Make of that as you will.

(Note: It's actually ln(1 + x) and ln²(1 + x) that are being plotted, not ln(x) and ln²(x), since the former two are the ones that intersect the point (0, 0), but I was too lazy to write all of that out).

[Gabu]

Hughento

Total words used: 23745

think - 821
people - 752
australia - 672
first - 534
votes - 507
state - 445
party - 443
whilst - 385
right - 382
leads - 381
support - 368
better - 363
states - 354
election - 328
melbourne - 308
world - 307
south - 305
three - 303
government - 293
least - 289
bush - 287
senate - 287
country - 275
believe - 269
australian - 262

Other notable words:

aussie - 209
melboufrne - 1
melbounre - 1
melbourbne - 1
melbourn - 1

Explain the last two.

Do you know what a natural logarithm is?

If not, it would be kind of difficult to explain what's going on there.

Gabu, from that, can you determine who has the most diverse vocabulary?

Depends on what we determine to be "diverse".

If it's "sheer number of unique words", then Lewis Trondheim wins with 25,651.
If it's "largest unique-word-to-number-of-posts ratio", then Machiavelli wins with 6.67 (or Dean with 4.65 if you want to ignore Machiavelli).

[Gabu]

Do you know what a natural logarithm is?

In that case, pass

You're not really missing anything; it's just speculation on what the relationship is between number of posts and number of unique words.

[Gabu]

Boss Tweed

Total words used: 13371 (Boss Tweed is l33t)

bush - 875
kerry - 805
think - 476
edwards - 428
people - 323
election - 296
president - 294
senator - 253
liberal - 238
right - 235
state - 214
party - 213
clinton - 205
governor - 201
candidate - 190
senate - 187
states - 158
first - 152
conservative - 151
hillary - 148
republican - 148
mccain - 145
better - 144
forum - 139
warner - 137

thefactor

Total words used: 14635

bush - 405
people - 394
think - 288
state - 282
because - 276
party - 272
states - 223
years - 213
government - 210
republican - 210
support - 208
election - 203
first - 203
kerry - 203
world - 203
right - 202
political - 188
president - 187
democratic - 182
democrats - 175
economic - 162
social - 150
national - 146
policy - 144
conservative - 139

Ilikeverin

Total words used: 11113

think - 223
ilikeverin - 179
election - 159
people - 149
party - 142
midwest - 138
governor - 118
write-in - 115
forum - 114
voting - 109
pbrunsel - 107
first - 101
president - 101
state - 92
states - 90
bush - 86
district - 86
minnesota - 83
social - 83
better - 78
region - 78
votes - 78
government - 74
liberal - 73
school - 71

Other notable words:

hug - 5
hughughug - 4
hughughughug - 2
hughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughughug - 2
hughughughughug - 1
hughughughughughug - 1
hughughughughughughug - 1
hughughughughughughughughug - 1

Just realized I should have included "hugs", but oh well, too late now.

Defarge

Total words used: 6439

senate - 246
president - 171
senator - 155
party - 149
atlasia - 142
election - 138
right - 125
people - 123
democratic - 119
bush - 118
support - 114
great - 94
kerry - 93
democrats - 90
district - 86
republicans - 86
republican - 85
governor - 80
think - 79
state - 77
agree - 73
government - 73
running - 70
believe - 67
hillary - 66

[Gabu]

BT has a very small number of unique words for his total post count :S

But you are right, he is 1337. You could even say he is the 13371 (the elite one).

Eventually people are going to say all they're going to say.  For some people, that's a lot; for others, that's less so.  Because of this, after a certain threshold, you aren't going to see a large increase in the number of unique words the person has said.

[Gabu]

We all need to stop saying the p-word so much p-pul.

"People" and "think" seem to be by far the most used words on this forum (besides words you can't live without, like "the").

[Gabu]

Milk_and_Cereal

Total words used: 9989

people - 434
think - 431
bush - 247
government - 244
voted - 237
state - 223
george - 211
states - 173
right - 168
round - 165
libertarian - 164
johnson - 148
thomas - 129
liberal - 128
president - 126
charles - 125
opebo - 116
republican - 115
clinton - 113
better - 112
presidential - 111
votes - 110
first - 109
social - 109
republicans - 105

would you prefer be to say 'and that is juxtaposed with' rather than 'whilst'?

It's a very useful and interesting word

"While" has replaced it long ago.

[Gabu]

Question: were a bunch of posts deleted or something?  I'm comparing the number of times StatesRights has said "Lincoln" currently with the number of times StatesRights had said "Lincoln" at the start of the thread, and the number has been cut in half.  I'm hoping that I don't have some strange bug in my program that has somehow come up since last time I put it to use.

EDIT: Actually, the number of instances of just about every word has been roughly cut in half.  Hmm... I'll have to look into this.

[Gabu]

Well, I can't find anything wrong with the program, so I'll have to assume that a whole bunch of old posts got deleted and that we just didn't notice.

So, I've started everyone after Josh22.

[Gabu]

Josh22

Total words used: 4127

party - 292
think - 184
right - 168
people - 154
bush - 143
republican - 125
kerry - 101
support - 80
score - 72
south - 68
states - 64
social - 63
believe - 54
north - 53
carolina - 52
president - 51
better - 49
sorry - 49
democrat - 48
running - 47
harry - 46
state - 46
election - 45
school - 45
southern - 42

Other notable words:

jesus - 29
christian - 27

Jtfdem

Total words used: 2386

gephardt - 45
granholm - 45
republican - 38
governor - 36
state - 34
think - 32
democrat - 30
devos - 30
michigan - 30
support - 30
undecided - 30
people - 29
bush - 25
kaine - 24
stabenow - 24
kerry - 23
senator - 23
election - 22
chance - 21
democratic - 20
clinton - 18
corzine - 17
debbie - 17
hillary - 17
party - 17

Gee, I wonder what state you're from.

Frodo

Total words used: 15106

party - 722
democratic - 486
republican - 393
bush - 297
state - 289
democrats - 275
government - 255
president - 248
states - 248
senate - 245
support - 229
people - 225
social - 224
governor - 207
political - 198
national - 193
democrat - 190
republicans - 189
conservative - 188
washington - 188
security - 182
election - 179
first - 179
right - 179
years - 179

I'm verty surprised "loony Left" didn't end up on my list.  :-)

"Loony" was said by you 28 times.  "Left" is unfortunately less than 5 letters long, so it was not picked up.

How on earth did I manage to say that exact same string of hugs twice?

Your hugging is a well-oiled machine.

[Gabu]

Wait, what is the order here?

I first did the newest requests.  Then, after that, I did the requests that I never did that came in November, the last time this was bumped.  Then, after those were done, I began the new newest requests.  I'm now up-to-date and am running them in the order that they're requested on this topic.

[Gabu]

Apologies about how long this batch has taken; I've been quite busy today.

Jas

Total words used: 4838

governor - 124
midwest - 118
proposition - 109
party - 92
voting - 90
election - 88
amendment - 85
votes - 75
senate - 71
ballot - 62
endorsement - 62
irish - 60
please - 60
abstain - 59
ireland - 58
candidate - 57
Ebowed - 55
lewis - 53
peter - 53
tcash - 45
candidates - 44
elections - 44
ernest - 44
district - 42
north - 41

MODU

Total words used: 12612

bush - 710
kerry - 439
think - 414
hahaha - 367
people - 367
state - 310
election - 293
right - 281
party - 271
however - 264
years - 231
states - 206
president - 169
polls - 164
government - 163
first - 160
against - 156
enough - 149
national - 147
candidate - 144
democrats - 144
democratic - 138
campaign - 137
support - 133
nation - 132

riceowl315

Total words used: 5964

people - 111
bush - 106
think - 102
right - 58
president - 55
other - 53
chuck - 52
really - 48
senator - 42
norris - 40
support - 38
senate - 36
against - 34
democratic - 34
court - 33
republican - 32
sheehan - 32
years - 32
first - 30
question - 30
least - 28
saying - 28
actually - 27
alito - 27
party - 27

Bono

Total words used: 21167

government - 665
people - 624
state - 491
billion - 435
right - 393
party - 306
states - 306
think - 296
public - 289
against - 259
federal - 258
first - 257
private - 245
change - 235
money - 229
schools - 228
president - 226
years - 223
rights - 216
school - 208
world - 203
initiative - 200
power - 197
united - 191
support - 189

There you have it, folks: Bono cares more about the government than the people.

J-Mann

Total words used: 7741

bush - 173
think - 158
right - 143
people - 139
kerry - 95
state - 89
political - 86
kansas - 85
republican - 74
years - 74
election - 65
first - 65
states - 64
little - 60
party - 60
president - 60
pretty - 57
democrats - 56
issues - 55
liberal - 51
support - 51
republicans - 49
against - 48
government - 48
public - 46

I'll get to migrendel's later.

[Gabu]

Also:

Could you get me again Gabu?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=27224.msg833709#msg833709

[Gabu]

angus

Total words used: 23077

think - 1370
bush - 573
right - 552
people - 488
point - 381
first - 340
little - 339
party - 323
course - 321
republican - 320
state - 318
years - 308
better - 305
democrats - 304
pretty - 298
kerry - 287
example - 261
thought - 261
agree - 260
least - 255
republicans - 255
government - 252
world - 252
question - 243
president - 241

Migrendel

Total words used: 10217

people - 331
support - 225
believe - 209
right - 201
rights - 172
abortion - 163
women - 150
court - 143
social - 131
government - 127
being - 109
cannot - 105 [The only person for whom "cannot" is higher than "can't".  -Ed.]
state - 99
party - 96
society - 91
decision - 90
supreme - 88
first - 87
marriage - 86
legal - 85
based - 84
amendment - 83
constitution - 83
reason - 83

Really long or obscure words:

jurisprudential - 1
kvetching - 1
lackadaisical - 1
laicement - 1
levenogestrel - 1 (??)
levenprogesterol - 1 (??)
metamorphizing - 1
(you get the idea...)

[Gabu]

It should be noted that while migrendel's unique word count may seem low, he only had 1689 posts at the time of the analysis, putting his word-count-to-posts-made ratio at 6.05, the highest by far out of people with a significant number of posts.