Vocabularies of forum-goers

[minionofmidas]

I'd like to have an update of mine if possible.

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[Bacon King]

Could you do mine?

[TeePee4Prez]

Do mine again as well.

[Jake]

Thanks Gabu

[Gabu]

Bacon King

Total words used: 2469

southeast - 34
governor - 30
initiative - 28
election - 25
senate - 25
candidates - 21
chuck - 18
norris - 16
pretty - 16
state - 15
bacon - 14
bush - 14
people - 14
abstain - 13
lieutenant - 13
party - 13
states - 13
elected - 12
gubernatorial - 12
liberal - 12
regional - 12
senator - 12
think - 12
approve - 11
ballot - 11

[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:

[afleitch]

My posts seem to be of above average word count

[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.

[The Dowager Mod]

Run it on me let's see how many times the word asswipe comes up.

[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

[Platypus]

redux me, bubs

[© tweed]

I'd also like to see mine done again.

[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

[Beet]

Do me, plz (no, not like that)

[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

[ilikeverin]

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)

[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.

[Defarge]

Pick me Gabu! Pwetty pwease

[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).

[Jake]

Explain the last two.

[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).