Comments on: As Balzac said, 'There goes another novel.'"

As Balzac said, 'There goes another novel.'"

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:26:36 -0800

Last year, cortex went out of his way to quantify our participation on MetaFilter. I asked if he'd be willing to do it again, and he agreed. So if you want to know how many words you've typed into MetaFilter instead of that dissertation/novel/revolutionary manifesto, now is the time and here is the place.

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:27:27 -0800

(Also, thank you for being game, cortex!)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:27:56 -0800

Sure.

By: valkyryn

valkyryn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:31:07 -0800

I'm afraid to ask... but I will anyway.

By: MartinWisse

MartinWisse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:32:09 -0800

Please.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:33:19 -0800

Ooooooh, yes please yes please yes please!

Of course, this won't actually quantify how many words I've typed into Metafilter because I spend a lot of time typing up angry screeds and deleting them in the interest of being a reasonable and civil participant.

As long as we're doing this, is there any chance this is also the thread where we ask how much stuff we've had deleted? I'm super curious but if it's not that's cool too.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:34:16 -0800

Please quantify my existence.

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:37:42 -0800

Oooooh, count me in! I might be in the running for least prolific.

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:38:18 -0800

Mrs. Pterodactyl: "As long as we're doing this, is there any chance this is also the thread where we ask how much stuff we've had deleted? I'm super curious but if it's not that's cool too."

You can just shoot the mods an e-mail through the contact form for that, if you really want to know.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:38:30 -0800

Yes, please!

By: dirtdirt

dirtdirt — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:42:20 -0800

Please!

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:46:32 -0800

Yes, I would like to know.

By: COD

COD — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:47:04 -0800

At least I'll finally really know why my book sits 90% unfinished on my hard drive.

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:51:01 -0800

I'd be interested in knowing how many words I've thrown down the filter hole.

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:51:22 -0800

me too please.

By: Think_Long

Think_Long — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:52:14 -0800

sure

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:52:22 -0800

ME ME ME!

(do those three count? Wait, what about those four? Crap. That's five more.)

By: troika

troika — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:53:21 -0800

Oh me, me!

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:54:59 -0800

(I love the title of this post btw)

By: Potomac Avenue

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:56:08 -0800

I would like to know. Also the frequency table if that's possible. TY.

By: crush-onastick

crush-onastick — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:57:44 -0800

Quantify me, too, please.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:57:45 -0800

*raises hand* Please!

By: fleacircus

fleacircus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:58:08 -0800

Please tell me all the information, my deleted comment count, and how I stack up on that secret metric. You know the one.

By: Blasdelb

Blasdelb — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:59:09 -0800

Oh god yes!

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:59:14 -0800

fleacircus: "that secret metric"

Contribution Index ;)

By: deezil

deezil — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:00:12 -0800

But I want to know how many words I haven't typed into MetaFilter, either due to closed threads or comments that I didn't think were worthy of posting once I had typed them up.

By: h00py

h00py — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:00:48 -0800

Oh, go on. I occasionally get verbose.

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:01:15 -0800

Sure.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:04:58 -0800

meeeeeee

prediction: lots of butts

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:05:11 -0800

Thank you, but no.

By: heyho

heyho — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:06:29 -0800

Yes, please do me again!

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:09:11 -0800

Yes, please do me again!

One time is fine, no strings, but if you want a second go round, shouldn't you at least pay for dinner or something? Mayhap some flowers? Doesn't hallmark make cards for things like that?

By: Splunge

Splunge — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:11:40 -0800

I'd like to see. But please separate into drunk and sober comments please.

By: nile_red

nile_red — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:13:14 -0800

Please thanks!

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:17:24 -0800

Yep, yes please.

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:19:18 -0800

If it is not too much trouble, please include me.

By: knile

knile — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:23:36 -0800

Yes.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:24:22 -0800

I could use a good slap, please.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:24:37 -0800

I'm afraid of the answer but if course I want to know. Yes, please.

By: Wretch729

Wretch729 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:34:47 -0800

Sure, I'd be curious.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:41:08 -0800

Quantity, not quality!

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:41:11 -0800

Count me in, please.

By: fake

fake — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:41:33 -0800

Please.

By: A Terrible Llama

A Terrible Llama — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:50:17 -0800

Me please!

By: Madamina

Madamina — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:50:31 -0800

Me twenty-eight!

By: wenestvedt

wenestvedt — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:51:31 -0800

Cool! Any chance we could see some community-wide bulk data (like averages)?

By: mlle valentine

mlle valentine — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:52:22 -0800

Me, please. I suspect it won't be that high but I am curious! Thanks.

By: dotgirl

dotgirl — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:52:30 -0800

Ooh, ooh, please choose me!

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:53:03 -0800

I admit that my curiosity compels me to request that my data be included in this experiment.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:53:13 -0800

Do me, cortex, do me!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:53:33 -0800

I like numbers.

By: slogger

slogger — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:54:19 -0800

Quantify my bad self!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:04:06 -0800

Okay! Here's the plan, based on how it went last time:

1. I'll make periodic passes through the "me toos" here, collecting usernumbers and running the script as a bulk job for that group. That'll generate a user-specific frequency table that will include data on your total number of used words as well as the number of times you've used each individual word.

The total-words number is at the top of that file so if you just want that it's easy to find, but it's just a tab-separated text file so you can search through it to for fun just using Ctrl-F if you're curious but don't want or know how to use any cleverer search tools. (At some point I intend to build some actual cleverer search tools.)

2. I'll send out a mefimail with the link to that file so that you know where to get it. That file will stick around for a while but not forever, so be sure to save a copy on your end if you want to do more than just glance at it once.

I'll probably run a couple batches today and then a batch every day or so as long as people keep piping up in here. I'll do the first one this morning so all you early birds can get some reasonably instant gratification.

By: octobersurprise

octobersurprise — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:04:27 -0800

A mod once tried to quantify me ...

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:07:20 -0800

As long as we're doing this, is there any chance this is also the thread where we ask how much stuff we've had deleted? I'm super curious but if it's not that's cool too.

Like Grither said, this is better as a separate email to the contact form, so feel free to poke us there if you want.

Cool! Any chance we could see some community-wide bulk data (like averages)?

That's basically what the Mefi Corpus Project is. It's got frequency tables for the entire site by subsite and time period, so if you want to compare the frequency of a given word in your own table to the frequency of that word as used by everyone on the site since it started, you can just search for that word in both tables.

The script I'm using for this thread is actually just a specialization of the script that generated that set of data.

By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:07:34 -0800

Me me me

By: Coatlicue

Coatlicue — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:08:19 -0800

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:16:07 -0800

I too would like to calculate my MeFi:dissertation ratio

By: Atreides

Atreides — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:16:35 -0800

Sure.

By: immlass

immlass — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:17:00 -0800

Me please!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:18:56 -0800

I shudder to think, but... Me!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:20:44 -0800

And for an example and some context, here's the comment I made last time that links to my (now out of date) personal frequency table and talks a little about what you'll find in these.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:21:15 -0800

me me me me

Fortunately I've also been writing 1000 words a day or so for the last several months so I will possibly not feel as abysmally terrible? NOPE PROBABLY STILL WILL

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:24:50 -0800

pie can fix that

By: Gilgongo

Gilgongo — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:25:38 -0800

Yes please

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:35:37 -0800

elizardbits: "pie can fix that"

pie fixes everything.

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:39:57 -0800

cortex in old thread: "I've said "zsazsa", "zucker", "zydeco", and probably thirty thousand other words, only once, ever."

I see someone was trying to up their weird word count last go round!

By: Danf

Danf — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:40:11 -0800

I would love to be quantified.

I am also probably one of the oldest here, so getting this info before I expire would be a plus!

But not to bother you. . .

By: zamboni

zamboni — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:41:49 -0800

Why not.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:44:13 -0800

I'm in.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:48:13 -0800

I want to see languagehat's but can you only show me the times he misused your/you're?

By: argonauta

argonauta — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:49:38 -0800

Hit me!

I keep forgetting that the house always wins.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:50:44 -0800

...as well as the number of times you've used each individual word.

That's the interesting part for me. Thanks in advance, Cortex.

By: dismas

dismas — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:51:57 -0800

I'm a little curious

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:52:25 -0800

By: likeso

likeso — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:57:26 -0800

Numerology!

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:58:49 -0800

I'm awfully curious about mine, actually.

By: Wordwoman

Wordwoman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:04:05 -0800

oh no

By: Wordwoman

Wordwoman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:04:25 -0800

but yes I must know

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:04:50 -0800

I think it would be really interesting to see if there are words that mods use more especially compared to before they were mods. For example, I wonder if you say "thanks" a lot more if you are a mod.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:06:07 -0800

I know I say "thanks" way more now. Also "folks," "please," and probably "knock it off."

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:06:26 -0800

sure.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:08:40 -0800

Yeah "folks" was my guess. And I probably never used the word "troll" before I worked here.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:12:09 -0800

I'm in!

I know I say "thanks" way more now.

I'm much more inclined to say "thants"

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:14:48 -0800

I spend a lot of time typing up angry screeds and deleting them in the interest of being a reasonable and civil participant.

Heh, yeah. I'm probably at about a 2/3's posted/typed ratio, myself.

I'd like to know how many amazings and awesomes I've posted, and if amazing replaced awesome over time, or if they're eqaully distributed along the timeline.

That would be ~~aweso~~ amazing to look at.

If that's too specific, I'll just have what everyone else is having.

By: royalsong

royalsong — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:23:19 -0800

please and thank you. :)

By: purpleclover

purpleclover — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:23:41 -0800

Yes, please.

By: bookwibble

bookwibble — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:25:23 -0800

I'm also curious.

By: brina

brina — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:26:22 -0800

Me too please.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:27:43 -0800

Numbers, please. *bites nails*
Thank you!

By: leahwrenn

leahwrenn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:29:07 -0800

Yes, please!

By: CrystalDave

CrystalDave — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:32:48 -0800

I know I have far too few words on here yet (Though that's changing), but this sounds fascinating.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:35:31 -0800

I am curious infinitewindow.

By: vegartanipla

vegartanipla — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:38:09 -0800

Indubitably sanctioning this codification venture.

By: KathrynT

KathrynT — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:45:07 -0800

I would love to see mine.

By: Renoroc

Renoroc — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:46:56 -0800

Crunchy!

By: chavenet

chavenet — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:49:45 -0800

Yes please, me too.

By: Joh

Joh — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:59:31 -0800

This sounds fun, I like silly data. Me too please!

By: ambrosia

ambrosia — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:15:13 -0800

Yes, please.

By: peep

peep — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:17:01 -0800

Me, please?

By: smirkette

smirkette — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:21:19 -0800

Seeing as this is the year I learned about quantitative research methods, yes, please! I ♥ data wankery. Thanks, Cortex!

By: The White Hat

The White Hat — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:21:44 -0800

Please. I want to see what eight years looks like.

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:22:20 -0800

Thanks, Greg. Threg.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:23:07 -0800

You know, I am remembering now one of the fiddly bits of doing this last time was that sending out dozens and dozens of mefimails with slightly edited contents was a pain in the ass.

The simpler thing to do here would be to just provide the format for the url the datafiles will be at, and then you can just plug your userid in there to grab your file. Since it's just doing counts of publicly available and site-searchable comment contents, that seems like kind of a privacy non-issue.

But if you for some reason specifically don't want your file sitting in a place where other people can easily fetch it, let me know and I'll put it somewhere a bit different and let you know where you can find it via mefimail.

I'm gonna kick off the first run in a bit here, will post word counts here along with instructions for grabbing the frequency table file.

By: bswinburn

bswinburn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:26:33 -0800

Count me in!

By: bswinburn

bswinburn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:26:53 -0800

Yes, I couldn't resist the bad pun.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:28:18 -0800

It appears to be broken.

By: Falconetti

Falconetti — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:29:52 -0800

Me too, sir.

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:34:13 -0800

I was going to try comparing my metafilter activity to my PhD thesis but I seem to remember closing my account while I finished the latter, so it's not really a fair contest. But the overall stats sound like fun so please add a general "me too!" for me.

By: antonymous

antonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:37:17 -0800

I like metadata! Pick me!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:39:43 -0800

Also griphus thank you for the Annie Hall title.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:42:32 -0800

I sorta wanna know.

By: the latin mouse

the latin mouse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:43:43 -0800

And me, please!

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:47:59 -0800

I am not a number, I am a ~~free man~~ collection of a bunch of numbers.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:48:58 -0800

Okay, first dump done, up through antonymous. Will continue to do periodic update dumps going forward, so feel free to speak up if you're interested.

Here's the stat line for everybody in the first dump, in the order in which they spoke up in the thread. If you should be in here but I mistyped your userid, let me know and I'll re-run you in the next group.

If you've never gone looking for your userid before and are wondering how to find it, just mouse over (or click on) your own username. It's that number.

And so:



user 7418:2262257 words,70920 unique, in33385 comments.

user 49346:478891 words,29350 unique, in10194 comments.

user 58:1244985 words,52803 unique, in28468 comments.

user 67400:888467 words,29377 unique, in5750 comments.

user 141010:80828 words,10535 unique, in1017 comments.

user 81760:76732 words,7394 unique, in739 comments.

user 39488:94958 words,11209 unique, in2820 comments.

user 61784:79297 words,8977 unique, in1768 comments.

user 38483:110633 words,12600 unique, in2607 comments.

user 23431:142464 words,14514 unique, in2415 comments.

user 22627:252704 words,20352 unique, in4222 comments.

user 34848:183312 words,12134 unique, in3064 comments.

user 77383:408053 words,22298 unique, in3570 comments.

user 38780:134944 words,10079 unique, in2566 comments.

user 88408:138805 words,14656 unique, in3676 comments.

user 2726:333977 words,18882 unique, in5043 comments.

user 63377:19645 words,4293 unique, in483 comments.

user 80913:244659 words,22269 unique, in4915 comments.

user 10279:274957 words,18889 unique, in3032 comments.

user 18312:1007000 words,41575 unique, in12463 comments.

user 20122:142263 words,15850 unique, in2314 comments.

user 90947:263989 words,19432 unique, in2510 comments.

user 77879:31885 words,4848 unique, in899 comments.

user 52224:70925 words,8088 unique, in1291 comments.

user 97321:203394 words,17330 unique, in2711 comments.

user 71074:189063 words,18665 unique, in5558 comments.

user 58356:65083 words,8345 unique, in1344 comments.

user 94835:158555 words,15298 unique, in3826 comments.

user 20423:20031 words,3929 unique, in424 comments.

user 17027:130646 words,13728 unique, in2314 comments.

user 37485:318197 words,16322 unique, in4601 comments.

user 73567:47971 words,7965 unique, in1026 comments.

user 46088:604432 words,34818 unique, in21227 comments.

user 43189:893010 words,35160 unique, in12771 comments.

user 137029:21841 words,4530 unique, in321 comments.

user 21431:288715 words,19356 unique, in5126 comments.

user 18811:160672 words,18209 unique, in2350 comments.

user 18169:162581 words,14345 unique, in2175 comments.

user 75964:240127 words,14567 unique, in2554 comments.

user 55262:299616 words,19291 unique, in2661 comments.

user 77819:122382 words,14545 unique, in1791 comments.

user 115961:24735 words,3965 unique, in388 comments.

user 147513:5108 words,1496 unique, in99 comments.

user 69606:82475 words,9872 unique, in1019 comments.

user 17675:1015309 words,33048 unique, in17789 comments.

user 292:2944596 words,59120 unique, in29632 comments.

user 23588:46646 words,7931 unique, in1613 comments.

user 15312:179844 words,18554 unique, in3188 comments.

user 17563:587954 words,30746 unique, in11859 comments.

user 56070:41731 words,5766 unique, in344 comments.

user 88591:84371 words,10740 unique, in1113 comments.

user 26998:235001 words,17395 unique, in2664 comments.

user 81979:301434 words,19388 unique, in3446 comments.

user 17897:191131 words,18588 unique, in7080 comments.

user 37801:422235 words,26878 unique, in11609 comments.

user 143850:1923 words,762 unique, in22 comments.

user 11183:132531 words,13802 unique, in2969 comments.

user 48377:87692 words,14474 unique, in2032 comments.

user 14752:1704253 words,65853 unique, in22187 comments.

user 123851:65182 words,9532 unique, in953 comments.

user 18609:264911 words,18298 unique, in3080 comments.

user 56010:25772 words,5037 unique, in592 comments.

user 21429:269797 words,22943 unique, in6633 comments.

user 124648:72392 words,11478 unique, in1730 comments.

user 28936:207556 words,15060 unique, in3047 comments.

user 94555:40644 words,5914 unique, in912 comments.

user 14474:159131 words,11981 unique, in2408 comments.

user 36852:346275 words,27146 unique, in5836 comments.

user 19026:338971 words,27150 unique, in6468 comments.

user 86246:72440 words,8393 unique, in1200 comments.

user 70245:43645 words,7198 unique, in486 comments.

user 85807:2027 words,720 unique, in33 comments.

user 16148:153111 words,12979 unique, in1185 comments.

user 15971:290405 words,23791 unique, in5005 comments.

user 43872:75968 words,8069 unique, in1079 comments.

user 94819:8639 words,2299 unique, in122 comments.

user 40206:71021 words,11933 unique, in2040 comments.

user 144659:28224 words,4619 unique, in274 comments.

user 96867:284350 words,19191 unique, in2747 comments.

user 130954:24077 words,5594 unique, in1072 comments.

user 96486:46420 words,8882 unique, in1859 comments.

user 20976:138357 words,11514 unique, in1374 comments.

user 17499:177225 words,14284 unique, in1850 comments.

user 18122:102852 words,10800 unique, in1825 comments.

user 110619:88728 words,9977 unique, in1183 comments.

user 19185:79942 words,12569 unique, in1585 comments.

user 68910:14104 words,2832 unique, in168 comments.

user 20821:412632 words,28892 unique, in8808 comments.

user 23554:103559 words,12444 unique, in2168 comments.

user 32440:387296 words,17403 unique, in2689 comments.

user 70792:18043 words,3985 unique, in180 comments.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:51:02 -0800

Please please me!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:52:43 -0800

Where to find your frequency table file:

Take this url:

http://stuff.metafilter.com/corpus/freq/temp/XXX--1-gram--allsites--1999-01-01--2013-01-01.txt

Paste it into your browser's address bar, replace XXX with your userid, and blam.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:53:37 -0800

Holy crap:

July 24, 2012: 1007000 words, 41575 unique, in 12463 comments.
July 22, 2011: 690117 words, 34674 unique, in 8654 comments.

I talk too much.

Thank you, cortex! One additional question, does this count posts and comments or just comments?

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:54:50 -0800

This is just comments, on Mefi, Ask, Metatalk and Music.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:55:14 -0800

I have used the word 'the' almost 20,000 times on this site.

Well goddam.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:55:49 -0800

OK. Thank you!

So figure, at least another thousand or three for posts and.... wow, I really do talk too much.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:56:22 -0800

WOW hey yeah thanks! This is awesome! Have I really posted fewer than 750 comments? That's actually the most surprising part to me.

Also apparently I say "I" significantly more than I say "the" which makes me feel super narcissistic so thanks a ton cortex.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:57:02 -0800

Question: It looks like my 40th most-used word is BLANK-- is that some sort of null return, or have I really typed 'BLANK' 1500 times? That seems unlikely.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:58:45 -0800

"BLANK" is definitely an artifact of the script's parsing, I don't recall offhand the meaning of which but you can safely ignore it. All actual words appear in lower case to simplify the counting process.

By: EmGeeJay

EmGeeJay — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:59:47 -0800

Sounds interesting, I'll put my name down for it.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:00:52 -0800

This is also neat because I can see how often I've referenced other users by name, like apparently I've said zarq three times and shakespeherian only once which kind of surprises me; I thought I talked about him more.

Anyway seriously once again thanks, this is fascinating.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:00:54 -0800

Not even half a million? I gotta quit with the one-liners and get on the expository anecdotes!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:01:00 -0800

That's what I figured.

I'm finding the most interesting stuff is all the words I've used exactly twice (vespucci, marjanen, kryptonions).

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:02:29 -0800

shakespeherian: "I have used the word 'the' almost 20,000 times on this site."

42593.

Atop my list are 35 monosyllabic words. The first word I use with two syllables is "people" and it is only my 36th most used word on MeFi. Wow.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:02:41 -0800

I've said 'zarq' 20 times.

By: bearwife

bearwife — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:03:11 -0800

Me too!! Me too!!

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:03:21 -0800

The requested URL /corpus/freq/temp/49436--1-gram--allsites--1999-01-01--2013-01-01.txt was not found on this server.

Okay what am I doing wrong here?

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:03:33 -0800

LOL

"shakespeherian" 71

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:04:17 -0800

Okay what am I doing wrong here?

You are typing your userid wrong.

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:04:34 -0800

Also: 246,981 over the course of a year? Jesus. I think I need a sabbatical; anyone want to be griphus for a few months?

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:05:01 -0800

Why have I said 'shakespeherian' 87 times? Quoting people referring to me?

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:05:59 -0800

You don't remember that day you spoke entirely in third person?

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:06:16 -0800

shakespeherian would never do that.

By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:07:08 -0800

I would love to see some sort of statistical enrichment figure—the frequency with which I use a word divided by the frequency with which the userbase as a total does it.

anyone want to be griphus for a few months?

Just MeMail me your password.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:07:09 -0800

Please to be adding me to this.

By: Mrs. Pterodactyl

Mrs. Pterodactyl — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:08:02 -0800

I've said "pterodactyl" 31 times, "pterodactyl's" 4 times, "pterodactyls" 2 times, and for some reason "ptero" once but this is explicable because pterodactyls are awesome.

I assume every single one of yours is you being like "uh, it's SHAKESPEHERIAN not SHAKESPERIAN".

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:08:08 -0800

Mine gets poetic:

how things time
make way which
good because something
no also want

And the number of words I've used exactly as much as my usernumber: met x yours

longest word: wake-up-to-a-meta-thread-where-people-have-been-talking-about-you-for-eight-hours

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:08:53 -0800

I wonder if anyone doesn't have "I" as their top word.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:09:30 -0800

Oooh wait is there an easy way to dump this to Excel?

/is at work

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:10:00 -0800

'I' is my 5th most-used word.

By: cashman

cashman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:10:56 -0800

me too ooh

By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:11:18 -0800

One of my longest words is cyxzbrglvyylvxmmktijraly2xixchxapsllaoxtwgyvwsbkw1pbkglqdnlg2lwcbbrtpi4cjcjc62u4hb1kzrewltco0ijelkoqi5dkgzcoxdrhzrosrokedqg00lnalibfmwltwowlg1qjg0zxkngc1nixqfisunxdsdbtoamuwoqqcfw5gkh.

I don't remember ever saying this.

By: nadawi

nadawi — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:11:36 -0800

me too, please!

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:11:48 -0800

cortex: " You are typing your userid wrong."

When my wife and I were dating, we saw a Friends episode where Joey says something dumb and Rachel looks down at him kindly, gently caresses his cheek and says ever-so-sweetly, "You're so pretty."

For years, this has been the go-to phrase in my house any time one of us does something stupid. It happens a lot.

Griphus?

You're so pretty. :D

By: 0xFCAF

0xFCAF — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:12:02 -0800

Me too! 38102

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:12:21 -0800

the first word that I have that's not a preposition or pronoun is 'people' at 932.

By: zarq

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:12:38 -0800

sweetkid: "I wonder if anyone doesn't have "I" as their top word."

Sixth here. 17579 times.

By: KathrynT

KathrynT — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:13:23 -0800

Jessamyn, mine reads like fridge poetry too:

i'm all
what

who

one: we
because from had
get up
people would them more

really

no

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:13:42 -0800

Mine is a little poetic as well!

word
absolutely came city living:
looks, music, reading
actual class
comes games, though
year brooklyn

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:13:56 -0800

ok it's just me that's self absorbed then, got it!

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:14:30 -0800

word
absolutely came city living:
looks, music, reading
actual class
comes games, though
year brooklyn

my mid twenties right there

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:15:13 -0800

Also, I've got "I" in 6th place as well.

By: EvaDestruction

EvaDestruction — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:15:54 -0800

I would like to be quantified, please.

By: alms

alms — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:19:29 -0800

Yes please, if it's not too late.

By: absalom

absalom — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:19:32 -0800

Sure, should be a hoot!

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:23:33 -0800

I've used the word "no" 177 times and "yes" 37 times. I wonder what that says about me.

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Just trying to even it out a bit for next year.

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:24:30 -0800

And 'love' is at 81. Awwwwwwww.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:24:50 -0800

The real meat: I've got 41 different variations of 'fuck' (including 'worsethanfuck' and 'twenty-fucking-six') with 'fucking' being the most common, at 198 uses, followed by 'fuck' at 160.

48 variations of 'shit.'

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:26:12 -0800

Atop my list are 35 monosyllabic words. The first word I use with two syllables is "people" and it is only my 36th most used word on MeFi. Wow.

This is pretty typical. The most common words in everybody's vocabulary are highly functional glue words like articles (the, a, an), prepositions (of, on, in, with), pronouns (you, i, it, he, she), copulas (is, be), and conjunctions (and, but, not). It's the structure of natural language at work, and the general consistency of these things from person to person and every from language to language is a very neat thing.

I wonder if anyone doesn't have "I" as their top word.

It likely varies! Especially for users with a lower overall count of words. The rough proportions of the most common words will be the same, see above, but on smaller corpora and with different modes and styles of speech those proportions won't be identical.

One thing I've got in the sitewide frequency tables is breakdowns by subsite, and if I remember right I think you see "I" at a higher frequency on Ask than you do on Mefi, for example, which may be explicable in terms of the more personal/anecdotal/demonstrative nature of askme answers vs. mefi conversations. Lot's of fun stuff to dig into there.

I would love to see some sort of statistical enrichment figure—the frequency with which I use a word divided by the frequency with which the userbase as a total does it.

You can compare by hand by searching the tables in the Mefi Corpus; I'd link directly to the big daddy of those but it's half a gig zipped up. So for a quicker reference, here instead is the frequency table for just comments on Metafilter proper, from all users, in 2010, including only words that were used at least 10 times that year:

2010 mefi comments, all users, 10+ incidents. 1.7 megabyte text file.

Still a pretty big file, so if you're going to do more than glance once I'd suggest saving it to your computer and playing with it there.

By: Jehan

Jehan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:26:23 -0800

It would be interesting, thank you.

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:26:48 -0800

My longest word: "i-know-this-thread-will-be-deleted-since-it's-chatfilter-so-i'll-post-a-book-that-has-been-made-into-a-movie-to-be-funny"

Do comments in deleted threads get counted?

By: zachlipton

zachlipton — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:28:26 -0800

Me please! Thank you.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:28:29 -0800

the a i
to of and
in that
it is for

on you was my this
with but as have at

be not just
it's all me
about if
or
i'm like out
an one so are they
from what when we up
by he there had can some

do think
don't really

who i've people
would your his
get BLANK time

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:30:44 -0800

shakespeherian: "The real meat: I've got 41 different variations of 'fuck'"

fuck: 3
fucking: 2
fuckwad: 1

And that's it! I'm so polite. And for fun:

shit: 5
shitty: 2
dipshit: 1
shithead: 1 (pronounced sha-tee-ad, no doubt)
shithole: 1
shitstorms: 1

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:33:02 -0800

Hahah "poutine" 25 times. Nice!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:38:21 -0800

Do comments in deleted threads get counted?

Yep! As do, I think, comments that were themselves deleted.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:41:13 -0800

cortex: "Yep! As do, I think, comments that were themselves deleted."

Oh, sweet. I can just scrape MeFi, run a diff against the Corpus, and use the leftovers to reconstruct a deletion-free version of MeFi.

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:46:42 -0800

me!

By: NoraCharles

NoraCharles — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:47:59 -0800

:::raises hand:::: me please, thank you!

By: carmicha

carmicha — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:52:16 -0800

Yes please! And thank you!

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:53:37 -0800

fucking - 210
fuck - 184
fucked - 20
fuckin - 13
fuck's - 12
fuckers - 12
motherfucker - 5
fucker - 3
fuck-the-system - 2
fuck-you - 2
motherfuckers - 2

Then 18 singly-occuring variations on this theme. The best one is "werewolf-fucking."

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:55:46 -0800

I've got both fuck-weasel and stone-fucking.

By: leesh

leesh — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:57:00 -0800

Me, please!

By: limeonaire

limeonaire — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:00:29 -0800

Ooo, please quantify me!

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:03:23 -0800

Yes, please.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:04:05 -0800

I would like not only to be quantified but also quantized.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:04:43 -0800

Cortex, use your powers.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:07:52 -0800

252 fucking
223 awesome
47 lol
22 butts

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:08:40 -0800

Yes, please count me in. Or you, know, whatever. Quantify me!

By: CancerMan

CancerMan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:09:23 -0800

I am a-twitter with anticipation at my object quantification. Do these replies count?

By: curuinor

curuinor — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:12:31 -0800

Ooh me!

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:15:31 -0800

Oooh, me please!

Also, I imagine there's a not-insignificant gap in my contributions to the site, where I just didn't have the time to keep up and gave up for a good-ish while.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:15:55 -0800

Count me in. I probably says penis a lot.

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:17:55 -0800

oh, hell, I guess I need to know. me too.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:20:23 -0800

Me, please!

And just to make the stats more exciting...

butts butts butts butts butts

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:23:58 -0800

And I doubt this will be included in any sort of stats of mine - but I am genuinely curious about how many threads exist where I am the last commenter. I tend to fall behind on my MeFi RSS quite a bit, and only catch threads 2 or 3 weeks after they're posted and (mostly) forgotten. So I imagine there's quite a few of these types of threads in existence.

By: MrVisible

MrVisible — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:24:54 -0800

I would like to be quantized as well. I imagine it's like the special effects from Innerspace.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:27:39 -0800

And I doubt this will be included in any sort of stats of mine - but I am genuinely curious about how many threads exist where I am the last commenter.

That is something that can be calculated from the data that exists in the Infodump, and in fact I feel like I remember a previous metatalk thread where someone was making those calculations. So there may be a mefite with an existing script that could tell you that.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:29:58 -0800

Please include me! I love words and numbers and numbers of words and words about numbers and words about numbers of words. I'm going to stop now, but I could keep going along the same lines for a long time.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:32:09 -0800

151 fucking
106 fuck
16 fucked
6 fuckers
5 fuck-all
5 fuckit
3 fuckton
2 abso-fucking-lutely
2 fuck's
2 fuck-ton
2 fuckin
2 fucks
2 pig-fucker
1 a-fucking-men
1 cluster-fuck
1 fan-fucking-tastic
1 fuckidy
1 fucko
1 fuckup
1 fuckwad
1 fuckwit
1 goat-fucking

Have I covered all the fucking forms?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:34:20 -0800

I'm feeling a little slow. I've tried plugging 7721 and carsonb into the URL and it's still 404-ing me.

By: FirstMateKate

FirstMateKate — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:35:31 -0800

I'm pretty new, so I'm probably going to be way below average. But it's not the number of words, its the something...something... that counts, right?

^{In case you couldn't tell, this was a request to count my data.}

By: Jehan

Jehan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:37:06 -0800

I wonder if you could tell who the most common user of a given word is. I'm pretty sure I say "folk" all the time, yet nobody else does.

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:43:55 -0800

Sooooo hopefully my advisor will never read this but my MeFi:thesis ratio is around 13:5, or 2.6:1. In fairness my MeFi contributions are significantly enriched for the word "fucking" (p = 0.03, chi-square/Yates) which I feel like must even the balance a little.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:44:35 -0800

I'm feeling a little slow. I've tried plugging 7721 and carsonb into the URL and it's still 404-ing me.

If you spoke up at some point after antonymous's comment, you'll be showing up in the next cohort when I run it again this afternoon; until then, no frequency table exists for you.

By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:48:12 -0800

cyxzbrglvyylvxmmktijraly2xixchxapsllaoxtwgyvwsbkw1pbkglqdnlg2lwcbbrtpi4cjcjc62u4hb1kzrewltco0ijelkoqi5dkgzcoxdrhzrosrokedqg00lnalibfmwltwowlg1qjg0zxkngc1nixqfisunxdsdbtoamuwoqqcfw5gkh.

I don't remember ever saying this.

I found it, apparently it was part of a comment in a Caps Lock Day thread, as part of a Base64-encoded gzip-compressed ALL CAPS version of the Treaty of Münster, part of the Peace of Westphalia.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:51:02 -0800

me, too, please. thank you!

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:53:11 -0800

If you spoke up at some point after antonymous's comment, you'll be showing up in the next cohort when I run it again this afternoon; until then, no frequency table exists for you.
OK, thanks cortex! I just missed that cutoff.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:55:31 -0800

Me! Thanks.

By: Ostara

Ostara — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:59:09 -0800

Quantify me, too, please. Thanks!

By: pointystick

pointystick — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:07:41 -0800

Please and thank you!

By: troika

troika — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:10:00 -0800

I can't believe I've only said "googly" three times in all my years here.

Well, 4 now.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:11:55 -0800

WORDS PER FAVORITE

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:13:24 -0800

I've only used "cat" 324 times? Better get to work...

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:18:37 -0800

Yeah, my "kitteh" count seemed awfully low.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:23:24 -0800

grouse: " I found it, apparently it was part of a comment in a Caps Lock Day thread, as part of a Base64-encoded gzip-compressed ALL CAPS version of the Treaty of Münster, part of the Peace of Westphalia."

I'm pretty sure to a lot of people in the world that 'explanation' makes about as much sense as the comment you were trying to explain.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:24:56 -0800

That is something that can be calculated from the data that exists in the Infodump, and in fact I feel like I remember a previous metatalk thread where someone was making those calculations. So there may be a mefite with an existing script that could tell you that.

Oooh, I was not aware of the existence of the Infodump, and now I have a fun project for tonight after my son goes to bed. :)

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:28:17 -0800

rhizome: "WORDS PER FAVORITE"

50.979

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By: grouse

grouse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:30:21 -0800

I found it, apparently it was part of a comment in a Caps Lock Day thread, as part of a Base64-encoded gzip-compressed ALL CAPS version of the Treaty of Münster, part of the Peace of Westphalia.

I'm pretty sure to a lot of people in the world that 'explanation' makes about as much sense as the comment you were trying to explain.

My mistake, it was bzip2, not gzip. Hope this helps!

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:40:40 -0800

I've said cat 385 times and boyfriend only 152 (187 if I include husband). Which pretty much sums up my priorities in life right there.

Also, I apparently only average 6.5 words per comment. I thought that would be higher.

By: Splunge

Splunge — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:41:00 -0800

Thanks Cortext.

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:47:15 -0800

Words per favorite?

Try favorites per word, turkeys.

By: RichardP

RichardP — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:49:32 -0800

Me!

By: FirstMateKate

FirstMateKate — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:00:10 -0800

Words per favorite?

Try favorites per word, turkeys.
posted by griphus at 1:47 PM on July 24 [+] [!]

Probably never going to favorite you ever again. On principle.

By: johnofjack

johnofjack — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:17:21 -0800

Me too!

By: Sebmojo

Sebmojo — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:19:34 -0800

yesh.

By: Sebmojo

Sebmojo — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:19:44 -0800

/Connery

By: deborah

deborah — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:26:07 -0800

I'm such a joiner - me too please!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:31:07 -0800

Alright! Here's round two, from eyeballkid through deborah.

user 9139:146930 words,14527 unique, in4830 comments.

user 64260:60039 words,8803 unique, in601 comments.

user 10585:169379 words,16468 unique, in4236 comments.

user 7721:352817 words,28119 unique, in7280 comments.

user 111738:5727 words,1875 unique, in120 comments.

user 96315:253234 words,18554 unique, in3424 comments.

user 32429:135763 words,14210 unique, in2220 comments.

user 49538:346024 words,22581 unique, in5521 comments.

user 15688:384251 words,19906 unique, in5452 comments.

user 38102:88358 words,11271 unique, in1298 comments.

user 94911:83620 words,10059 unique, in1050 comments.

user 14751:192799 words,14994 unique, in2877 comments.

user 18425:105389 words,12377 unique, in2374 comments.

user 127127:112687 words,12534 unique, in1533 comments.

user 22916:301862 words,18488 unique, in2104 comments.

user 63452:82019 words,9764 unique, in1035 comments.

user 43236:56643 words,6229 unique, in663 comments.

user 64979:68900 words,10027 unique, in1123 comments.

user 35715:16603 words,3390 unique, in415 comments.

user 28036:237171 words,19565 unique, in2757 comments.

user 114110:155697 words,12971 unique, in1207 comments.

user 27428:583171 words,30941 unique, in5651 comments.

user 62962:93743 words,13182 unique, in1845 comments.

user 744:88473 words,11391 unique, in2358 comments.

user 76990:43833 words,6710 unique, in349 comments.

user 114526:7707 words,2290 unique, in86 comments.

user 18329:178772 words,14348 unique, in2973 comments.

user 59453:354369 words,18972 unique, in6566 comments.

user 102200:744890 words,29989 unique, in4037 comments.

user 74248:367041 words,21197 unique, in5024 comments.

user 53053:50604 words,7296 unique, in604 comments.

user 19328:500 words,292 unique, in28 comments.

user 140431:16944 words,3330 unique, in195 comments.

user 36360:229072 words,17746 unique, in2346 comments.

user 23766:63497 words,10891 unique, in2488 comments.

user 18293:83255 words,9154 unique, in1103 comments.

user 61293:60313 words,8421 unique, in1159 comments.

user 35452:291491 words,21853 unique, in6802 comments.

user 17881:95695 words,10570 unique, in1017 comments.

user 67315:17132 words,3723 unique, in271 comments.

user 91319:71423 words,10765 unique, in1101 comments.

user 16990:125597 words,12396 unique, in3219 comments.

As above, plug your userid into that url if you want to grab your full frequency table.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:35:48 -0800

I think you made a typo for my usernumber. 19328 (who isn't in this thread) should be 19628.

:( How long do I have to wait for the next batch?

By: gubenuj

gubenuj — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:36:59 -0800

Aww, just missed ya. Include me in round three please?

By: bearwife

bearwife — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:50:06 -0800

Totally cool. Thanks so much.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:52:26 -0800

heyho heyho heyho heyho

By: Jehan

Jehan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:55:15 -0800

Hmm, it seems I've said "Cameron" thirty times. Is it possible to know how many of them are near to instances of the word "twat"?

By: CancerMan

CancerMan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:56:21 -0800

Interesting. Most words are lowercase, but my usage of "blank" is uppercase in the txt file.

Now I have to go through my history to see where I used the single letter words "s" and "b".

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:03:45 -0800

I say "fuck" a lot.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:04:00 -0800

(That didn't help.)

By: stoneandstar

stoneandstar — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:05:10 -0800

Yes!

By: Rory Marinich

Rory Marinich — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:06:18 -0800

Me please!

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:06:36 -0800

Thank you!

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:10:47 -0800

huh, I've used the words punk, sex, and ska exactly 38 times each. Also, sandwich.

I am really enjoying the found poetry aspect of this.

By: Errant

Errant — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:17:12 -0800

I'm in.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:24:06 -0800

Interesting. Most words are lowercase, but my usage of "blank" is uppercase in the txt file.

"BLANK" is an artifact of my parsing process and does not represent the actual use of the word blank. Every actual word you've used is normalized to lowercase by the script to simplify the counting/display process.

Now I have to go through my history to see where I used the single letter words "s" and "b".

It's possible you have actually used those as stand-alone tokens at some point; it's also possible that the parsing process orphaned them from some sort of compound word at some point if they were connected to the rest of the word by some sort of punctuation other than a hyphen or an apostrophe, since I convert most punctuation to whitespace early on in the comment-digestion process.

How long do I have to wait for the next batch?

As an apology for the typo fakeout, I'll do another mini batch right now!

user 19628:124530 words,12881 unique, in2561 comments.

user 94190:14498 words,3095 unique, in151 comments.

user 136774:92312 words,8798 unique, in695 comments.

user 101698:326738 words,18492 unique, in1629 comments.

user 25909:215598 words,16250 unique, in1525 comments.

By: The Wrong Kind of Cheese

The Wrong Kind of Cheese — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:30:11 -0800

Gracious, I've been out all day and look what I've missed! If there's to be another round, pretty please include me. Thanks!

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:30:34 -0800

Me too! Me too!

By: danny the boy

danny the boy — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:38:23 -0800

Include me in your next batch please!

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:39:16 -0800

Thanks!

By: lollusc

lollusc — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:41:14 -0800

I would like to know too!

By: decathecting

decathecting — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:43:51 -0800

Ooh, me please!

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:44:26 -0800

94958 total words, 11209 unique words

I don't know 11209 unique words.

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:47:02 -0800

I would love this too, if you're still doing the dumps

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:50:49 -0800

I also used the words "socks" and "nom" 42 times each; presumably in the same sentence.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:58:37 -0800

semiotics,yes!

By: ChrisR

ChrisR — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:59:31 -0800

Me too, please

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:01:35 -0800

yes, I guess I should be included here, though anything I learn will probably make me sad.

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:03:03 -0800

Yes please!

By: julen

julen — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:03:59 -0800

Me too! It will be interesting to compare what I think the results will be with what they actually are.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:09:58 -0800

Please and thank you.

By: Ruki

Ruki — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:11:48 -0800

Yes, please!

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:13:22 -0800

Looks like I've averaged around 60 words per comment. That is... Significantly more than expected.

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:15:29 -0800

Out of respect (and the wish to see this name crop up in my stats next time): R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley.

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:16:47 -0800

Me, too (she said, cringing in anticipation).

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:17:10 -0800

Somebody less lazy than me needs to plug this stuff into R and create a frequency distribution of MeFite verbosity.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:24:51 -0800

And I'm super surprised that I've only used the word "yumtastic" once. Well, twice now. And I've used the prefix non- (on various words) quite a few times. Most interestingly, "non-burn-y" - I really wonder wtf I was talking about there.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:30:56 -0800

Have I covered all the fucking forms?

Not really. This was my fuckform-tally back in 2007. I suspect I may have increased it in both volume and variety since.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:31:59 -0800

Whoops, the first line was meant to quote Devils Rancher, here.

By: brina

brina — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:37:30 -0800

Thank you, great cortex!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:49:43 -0800

Me too.

By: OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:50:41 -0800

Ooh, I do!

By: thinkpiece

thinkpiece — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:52:31 -0800

Ooh boy, ok. Yep, I'm in.

By: Dr. Zira

Dr. Zira — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:53:23 -0800

Yes, please.

By: Jonathan Livengood

Jonathan Livengood — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:54:30 -0800

I want to play, too. Thanks in advance.

By: goethean

goethean — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:59:30 -0800

Do me!

By: maudlin

maudlin — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:00:17 -0800

Hit me.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:14:30 -0800

Two things I'm curious about.

1) I really like to use the word 'guy' to refer to anyone or anything, but have decided to cut it out as it's too gendered. I wonder how well I stuck to that.

2) I remember reading about how people trained Bayesian filters to recognize spam, working off of two corpuses, one of email identified as spam, the other identified as not spam. The end result was that each word was identified as either pointing towards the email containing it being spam or non-spam, and also a measure of how strongly it pointed.

If I could run this training for my words vs. the mefi corpus, I should be able to pick out the one word that, if it's used in a comment, makes it most likely that the comment is by me. It'd be kinda cool to know what my word is.

By: cybercoitus interruptus

cybercoitus interruptus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:15:11 -0800

Yes pls me too.

By: motty

motty — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:15:26 -0800

Oh yes please. Thank you.

By: peacay

peacay — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:23:43 -0800

Me too thanks. Pad it out, make it pretty and give it an accent. French this time.

By: usonian

usonian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:30:12 -0800

Yes please!

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:44:55 -0800

R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley.

nooooooooooo

By: Alterscape

Alterscape — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:45:56 -0800

Datawankery? Count me in. By which I mean "me too please."

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:47:46 -0800

If I could run this training for my words vs. the mefi corpus, I should be able to pick out the one word that, if it's used in a comment, makes it most likely that the comment is by me. It'd be kinda cool to know what my word is.

If you figure out how to do this, please share. I'd love to find out what my word is. Although I fear it will be something embarrassing.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:51:14 -0800

Thanks for doing this cortex.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:57:07 -0800

I'd love to find out what my word is. Although I fear it will be something embarrassing.

It'll probably take a while, if I ever get around to it. But if the spam filtering is any guide, the best indicator words turned out to be unexpectedly innocuous.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:01:49 -0800

Not really. This was my fuckform-tally back in 2007.

I bow in humbled awe at you fucktastic fuckatiousness, sir. Two fucking thumbs up!

By: kengraham

kengraham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:03:15 -0800

It'd be kinda cool to know what my word is.

"guy".

By: SollosQ

SollosQ — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:04:02 -0800

Please be gentle.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:08:13 -0800

Oh, and my fuck variety is not all that varied - the only interesting variations are "chickenfucking" and "toofuck". I'm surprised, no fuckarella, fuckstick, or fucksicle. Well, next time around I suppose :)

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:39:23 -0800

For what it's worth, that's what the (long-dead now) mefi word cloud thing did: it parsed a user's comment history to build a frequency table, then compared each word that appeared in that table against a pre-calculated global frequency table for the site, coming up with a ratio value for each, then sorted by value and listed the top like 50 or whatever.

This'd be very doable with the existing Corpus files—just use one of the whole-site files as the baseline standard, and compare the words in a user's newly calculated table and bob's your uncle. The only futzy part here is grabbing the user-specific files, but for the purposes of experimentation the ones generated for this thread are obviously readily available.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:43:38 -0800

And if we're talking fucking, the thing to remember is that none of us fucks as much as all of us. In the spirit of which:

Every variation on "fuck" in Metafilter history.

By: box

box — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:53:55 -0800

Buncha sweet fuck-nothings, there.

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:55:06 -0800

Seven doughnut-fuckings?

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:55:48 -0800

Wow, fishfucker is way up there. Does that connote a slur against a particular sub-culture that I'm unaware of, or do MeFites just find it to be generally melodious? Fucko is a fast-rising star on my personal fuck-variant horizon, just for future general use, I think. It has a caché and isn't so horribly overdone as some.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:57:14 -0800

There was a user named fishfucker that probably accounts for that.

By: box

box — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:58:13 -0800

There is/was a user named fishfucker. I'm guessing that's a contributing factor.

Dang, too slow.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:02:42 -0800

Ah, that's right.

There is also a really long tail of single-use constructs, there. We're an impressive fuck construct generator, in aggregate.

By: defenestration

defenestration — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:03:54 -0800

I'd like to know. Thanks!

By: barnacles

barnacles — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:04:12 -0800

I'd like to be in the next batch or mini-batch, please. Not really fussy as to my batchiness.

By: kengraham

kengraham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:16:43 -0800

A friend of mine who learnt English through a weird combination of Pink Floyd and deduction -- he once responded to my look of puzzlement with "I think you overstand" -- got hit by a weird variant of the multiple-negative bus, once, while "redisunfuckulating" his computer. I was thus glad to to find the etymo-fucking-logical ancestor "deunfuck" on cortex's epic list.

The relative paucity of MeFi Fucktaculars is weird, though.

By: zennish

zennish — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:21:17 -0800

Not interested in my word count, but that txt file of collected 'fuck' variations has made my god damn day. I love EVERYONE ON THE GREY (and blue and green).

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:25:28 -0800

Every variation on "fuck" in Metafilter history.

No shit?

/Actually quite a lot of shit, including christcocksuckerpickleshitfuckfuckfuck. Pickleshit?

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:31:24 -0800

I think it's interesting that "fucking" is slightly more popular than "fuck" itself.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:37:01 -0800

That's indeed an impressive array of fucking, you unwholesome fucknauts.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:37:04 -0800

So people say, "unfuckingbelievable" (and variants) more than "unbefuckinglievable" (and variants)? Interesting.

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:40:33 -0800

I'm not sure if I want to know, but do me.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:43:08 -0800

So people say, "unfuckingbelievable" (and variants) more than "unbefuckinglievable" (and variants)? Interesting.

That's not too surprising to me - the former is much less awkward than the latter.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:46:27 -0800

It's actually one of those Linguistics 101 things you learn... why do people say hippofuckingpotamus and not hipfuckingpopotamus or hippopotfuckingamus? How do they know?

By: carter

carter — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:49:52 -0800

Me too!

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:50:30 -0800

You learned it, but I never took Linguistics 101 and I would love to know how people know to do this. I can see the rhythmic structure inherent in unbefuckinglievable and hippofuckingpotamus and I can see that unfuckingbelievable and hipfuckingpopotamus lack a certain mellifluousness to me, but if you are able to explain why that is (or point to a source where I could learn) then I for one would be fascinated.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:54:22 -0800

Expletive infixation.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:55:28 -0800

Ladies and gentlemen: expletive infixation. See also: prosody.

On prefuckingview: fuck.

By: kengraham

kengraham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:01:01 -0800

It's actually one of those Linguistics 101 things you learn... why do people say hippofuckingpotamus and not hipfuckingpopotamus or hippopotfuckingamus? How do they know?

What sort of search terms would a person who wanted to know the answer to this be using? (Not least because to me, "unbefuckinglievable" trips pleasantly off the tongue while "unfuckingbelievable" sounds disjointed, or at least like three distinct words.)

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:01:34 -0800

OK, so basically people like to put the "fucking" just before the main stressed syllable in a multisyllabic word because it sounds better, except sometimes if there's a morpheme boundary (as between un- and -believable) people will put it there instead because it makes more sense to them. And if you want to know why it sounds better to have it before the main stress then you have to read about the minimal restructuring of the metrical stress tree of the host, which is something that I would understand if I'd ever taken a Linguistics class. I feel like such an ignorant barfuckingbarian.

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:07:40 -0800

the url doesn't work for my user number, for some reason :(

By: kengraham

kengraham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:12:45 -0800

See, maudlin, I failed to preview too, it looks like, but thanks for the links!

I can't see infuckingfixation working with "preview", though. Saying a bunch aloud, I conjecture:

Infuckingsertion of a word with n syllables into a word with fewer than n syllables cannot give a pleafuckingsant result.

ALSO: we definabsofuckinglutelyitely need nested expletive infixation.

I still don't understand the random decision to give the morpheme boundary the right of way, sometimes, but I probably just haven't tried enough examples.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:24:30 -0800

1 3.95719893630493 fuuuuuck
1 3.95719893630493 fuuuuuuuuuck
1 3.95719893630493 fuuuuuuuuuuuck

By: Homeboy Trouble

Homeboy Trouble — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:25:42 -0800

Ooh! Data! Shiny! Me too please! Yay! Thanks!

Infuckingsertion of a word with n syllables into a word with fewer than n syllables cannot give a pleafuckingsant result.
Doubtmotherfuckinful.

By: Kerasia

Kerasia — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:41:09 -0800

I want. Please. Thanks.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:42:54 -0800

Every variation on "fuck" in Metafilter history.

How many of those comments were ultimately deleted, I wonder? More generally, is the presence of profanity positively correlated with deletion?

By: kengraham

kengraham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:52:19 -0800

"Doubtmotherfuckinful" is unfuckingpleasant, though.

(I wanted to say "...is not a [counterexample]" but couldn't figure out how to put "fucking" into "counterexample". The most metrically okay is pretending the "x" is "cks" and saying "countereckfuckingsample", but it seems dubious. This is very complicated.)

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:54:30 -0800

Some people call me Maurice
Cause' I speak of the hippofuckingpotamus of love

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:55:02 -0800

Note that a common solution to a tricky infix is to opt for a simple prefix. "fucking doubtful" and "fucking counterexample" are simple, elegant solutions to the problem. Sometimes the natural boundary was already the word boundary.

I'll run another batch here before bed.

By: kengraham

kengraham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:05:21 -0800

cortex may have saved the day. I was wondering about whether one follows the before-the-stressed syllable rule even when that syllable is the first. Is "fucking doubtful" an instance expletive infixation (or perhaps fuckingdoubtful?)? Or are there words -- the unfuckables -- that admit no such infixation?

Formalizing this is a prefuckingcarious propofuckingsition, but for practical prosody, prefix is probably proper.

By: argonauta

argonauta — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:06:21 -0800

My contribution to the fuck list is "oh-fuck-it-i'll-just-get-the-instant-gratification-now."

Sounds about right.

By: MultiFaceted

MultiFaceted — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:09:42 -0800

Do Me too! This looks like fun!

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:16:36 -0800

I swear to god that "hippofuckingpotamus" thing is also called the "fucking insertion," which I only remember because my friend was taking Linguistics 101 in college and we laughed about that for a week.

yup, here we go! adding "linguistics" to that search query was pretty clutch, btw

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:28:20 -0800

Righto, final batch for tonight, from The Wrong Kind of Cheese up through MultiFaceted. As always, find your full frequency table like this.

user 138535:15485 words,3352 unique, in87 comments.

user 23593:67691 words,9347 unique, in2220 comments.

user 17506:61600 words,8118 unique, in789 comments.

user 115705:240234 words,14076 unique, in2206 comments.

user 43105:319929 words,14538 unique, in2711 comments.

user 58837:78283 words,9092 unique, in1534 comments.

user 6915:435527 words,33820 unique, in9513 comments.

user 18075:18691 words,4083 unique, in353 comments.

user 20007:205224 words,20529 unique, in3747 comments.

user 18444:145691 words,15279 unique, in5060 comments.

user 534:99838 words,11676 unique, in628 comments.

user 118218:82086 words,11641 unique, in861 comments.

user 17095:24785 words,4471 unique, in454 comments.

user 78000:797041 words,30986 unique, in7351 comments.

user 2238:1071010 words,47830 unique, in18462 comments.

user 126778:112545 words,12853 unique, in2254 comments.

user 35482:26319 words,4799 unique, in646 comments.

user 17698:108900 words,12541 unique, in1888 comments.

user 17827:92439 words,12074 unique, in1472 comments.

user 139308:35236 words,5186 unique, in277 comments.

user 14682:43382 words,7975 unique, in1596 comments.

user 801:342199 words,24769 unique, in4377 comments.

user 27438:165390 words,15356 unique, in1180 comments.

user 47942:56288 words,7239 unique, in777 comments.

user 770:298866 words,23134 unique, in4176 comments.

user 93688:98006 words,11622 unique, in1205 comments.

user 36058:87317 words,10601 unique, in967 comments.

user 104829:9138 words,2266 unique, in84 comments.

user 27016:56665 words,8559 unique, in1515 comments.

user 32016:56145 words,8613 unique, in870 comments.

user 91774:126441 words,10687 unique, in2359 comments.

user 15578:170370 words,16203 unique, in4044 comments.

user 18854:98670 words,10922 unique, in1363 comments.

user 112581:83348 words,11206 unique, in550 comments.

user 70418:83536 words,10258 unique, in787 comments.

user 94553:64505 words,6119 unique, in381 comments.

I'll be happy to run some more tomorrow.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:28:30 -0800

Somehow I knew everyone would jump on this bandwagon.

By: youngergirl44

youngergirl44 — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:34:59 -0800

Lame. I missed the last batch before bedtime. Oh, well. Count me in for the morning group!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:37:50 -0800

And a great big pile of shittery to tide you over.

By: a humble nudibranch

a humble nudibranch — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:00:33 -0800

I am terse. I have no fear of your numbers! (curious though)

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:37:35 -0800

Neat! Slip me into the next batch, please.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:52:01 -0800

Well, apparently the words I use much more than anyone else on MeFi (based on the old cloud method) are:

knotted, fenway, haskell, baptism, lambda, universals, esperanto, allston, concierge, pulleys, madcaptenor, flatland, clade, baptisms, memri, 1-d, meany, db8

which sounds pretty fair. Although two of them are memories of unpleasant arguments I just couldn't igfuckingnore, and 'db8' turns out to be from a pretty good IPv6 joke I once made.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:03:26 -0800

cortex: "And a great big pile of shittery to tide you over."

Ahh, yes, the famed long brown tail.

By: nestor_makhno

nestor_makhno — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:49:59 -0800

One for me please. Thanks Cortex, you're a gem.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:11:05 -0800

And me too. But only my good comments (6 words in 1 comment, 1 unique word).

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:24:25 -0800

Yes, please.

By: MartinWisse

MartinWisse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:36:40 -0800

I wonder if anyone doesn't have "I" as their top word.

Not even in my top ten. It's at 11 with "you" at ten; I guess I like to berate you more than I like to talk about myself.

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:37:45 -0800

Yes...me, too, please — in this incarnation and as Ethereal Bligh.

By: rangefinder 1.4

rangefinder 1.4 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:38:43 -0800

Hi cortex, please count me in. Thanks for offering to do this again!

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:58:34 -0800

"Not even in my top ten. It's at 11 with 'you' at ten; I guess I like to berate you more than I like to talk about myself."

The idea that the use of the first-person pronoun (specifically the nominative) is diagnostic of personality is pernicious and false. Rather, it's culturally inflected, to some degree a matter of social register, and idiosyncratic.

It's also the case that frequency doesn't vary that much and often perceived trends are the result of confirmation bias. This is particularly true with regard to high-profile people like Presidents and claims made about their usage. I've yet to see an actual quantitative analysis that doesn't, amazingly, completely disprove the claims made by pundits about this stuff — both in the cases of Bush and Obama.

In general, using frequency analysis as clues to mental attitude is very problematic. I've read a lot of analysis, commentary, and criticism of this kind of thing by (primarily) Mark Liberman at Language Log, both with regard to pundits arguing for naracissism in Presidential usage of first person pronouns, and more interestingly with regard to some academic work.

My impression has been that this sort of academic work is more often questionable or faulty than reliable — for example, recently he looked at some research on the use of individualistic versus communitarian related words over the last hundred years. The conclusion of the paper was that the higher incidence of individualistic terms indicate a cultural turn toward more individualism. But that's a faulty conclusion, as is made clear by one good counterexample: today in the US, it is the right which is more likely to use the terms "marxism" and "socialism" and related. If you were running such an analysis on the rhetoric of the right over the last fifty years, you'd be tempted to conclude that it's moved leftward. The point is that a frequency analysis of a corpus tells you...frequency of usage. It doesn't tell you how those words are used, in what context. And, even if further analysis does, in isolation you don't have an understanding of how those frequencies, in those contexts, compares to the culture within which they occur.

By: Iteki

Iteki — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:25:29 -0800

Me too please!

By: Dysk

Dysk — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:42:48 -0800

Data! :D Me too, please!

By: b33j

b33j — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:43:56 -0800

Quantify me, baby!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:28:05 -0800

Seconding Ivan there. Context is so important! You cannot make accurate claims about social behavior from frequency results of a corpus. That is quantitative. You cannot make global claims about social behavior from individual units (be them words, comments or MeFites). That is qualitative. If you want to say anything worthwhile about social behavior you really need to look at the interaction between quantitative and qualitative analyses. That is macro-level and micro-level at once and requires taking the context into account. Understanding the context at the macro-level usually requires some sort of ethnography — getting to know the population/community, how it works, what it cares about and how it presents itself (identity), as well as where it stands in the social space, relative to other populations/communities. Understanding the context at the micro-level requires some qualitative tools, like conversation analysis or examination of linguistic structure. And that must be examined relative to other nearby structures, individuals, comments/conversations.

For example, somebody mentioned the frequency of fishfucker above. That 'word' is community specific, referentially tied to the history of an individual and the entire community's relationship and history with them. Spikes in mentions of fishfucker are probably related to certain events. And even the use of the 'word' fishfucker itself is related to linguistic structure. If that MeFite's name happened to be stargazer or something else that wasn't alliterative, expletive-containing, and had this other semantic meaning (we know what a stargazer is, as it's a more common English phrase; what the hell is a fish fucker?), we might use that name referentially more or less than fishfucker.

And even our meta-uses of it get folded in. Today and forevermore, I will have a much higher frequency of fishfucker than countless thousands of other words. And sadly, also related a spike in the words 'related' and 'spike'. So, fishfucker, related, spike. Make of that what you will. (But please take the context into account, otherwise you forevermore might just think I'm weird.)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:53:15 -0800

I want to be quantified. Thanking you in advance.

By: crocomancer

crocomancer — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:54:57 -0800

yes please

By: Plutor

Plutor — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:59:32 -0800

Please to be including me in this public abuse.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:37:35 -0800

I may as well, even though I'm just looking for a good used car.

By: King Bee

King Bee — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 05:56:47 -0800

I'd like to be quantified also! Thanks.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:18:39 -0800

Fuzzy Skinner: "I may as well, even though I'm just looking for a good used car."

I've taken the liberty of doing fred manually:

6 i
4 a
3 used
3 am
3 looking
3 car
3 for
2 just
1 all
1 that
1 will
1 goodbye
1 this
1 around
1 was
1 instead
1 thanx
1 is
1 think
1 bashed
1 tired
1 being
1 walk
1 lot
1 what
1 of
1 and
1 really

And a whopping 0.522 Words Per Favorite. Being a cult icon has its benefits, I guess.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:45:35 -0800

I wonder if anyone doesn't have "I" as their top word.

3rd for me. "to" and "the" take the top two places. And apparently the words I use more than others MeFite are hrmm, Mississauga, antifuse (only 8 times, but still), refrigerate, telus, dublin, lycos (I wonder why I was talking about lycos so much), gf's, newsgroups, shortcake, galway and zidane.

And I've said hrmm 65 times. It's my default go-to for "need to compose my thoughts, and still end up typing something as I'm composing my thoughts" I guess.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:47:23 -0800

Hah, also in that list: "umm" (72 times). Clearly I spend a lot of time trying to express that I'm pausing/contemplating.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:48:05 -0800

(also - thanks to benito.strauss for calculating that for me)

By: antifuse

antifuse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:07:39 -0800

And one last interesting (to me) note - scrolling down past the words in order, after a certain frequency level (once you get past the prepositions and conjunctions and pronouns), it starts to sounds like sentences that SHOULD make sense but don't, like something that you've run back and forth through babelfish 100 times or something. Particularly if you put some interesting usage of punctuation. About 150 words in, for me, you get this sentence: "Every since after most before around last old enough, oh show getting need take while doing down thought always read big question." Then, a bit further down... "Fact: few stuff home made person remember saying Ireland best fun thread"

It's kind of a fun (to me, I am weird) game. Around my first "fuck" occurrence: "Europe expensive, forget fucking"

By: deezil

deezil — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:16:13 -0800

I want to see what the stats look like for the anonymous AskMe user as far as words in posts. But that pony is awfully far outside this ranch.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:16:42 -0800

I'm grateful to see that I have only used the word "zuckerberg" once.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:21:21 -0800

I'm grateful to see that I have only used the word "zuckerberg" once.

Gotcha beat there. Never used it once. (I know that even though my results aren't in yet!)

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:22:43 -0800

I never said I was perfect.

By: Drastic

Drastic — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:27:12 -0800

Please wrangle and mine my data as well.

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:27:56 -0800

I'm interested

By: philipy

philipy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:41:42 -0800

I should probably resist the temptation, but I won't.

Count me in.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:45:07 -0800

Gotcha beat there. Never used it once. (I know that even though my results aren't in yet!)

Of course, now that you've quoted The Deej saying it, since your stats haven't been calculated yet, it's going to show up in them.

By: alms

alms — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:03:48 -0800

PPM = ??

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:04:33 -0800

Good morning! youngergirl44 through philipy, below. Frequency tables here.

user 43729:31924 words,4985 unique, in354 comments.

user 112842:14829 words,3688 unique, in413 comments.

user 16000:507098 words,34785 unique, in7990 comments.

user 95433:19014 words,4151 unique, in515 comments.

user 41040:284300 words,20915 unique, in5432 comments.

user 3518:748303 words,36500 unique, in9602 comments.

user 137535:456338 words,22175 unique, in1789 comments.

user 17454:1242525 words,40563 unique, in8167 comments.

user 76988:26372 words,4406 unique, in194 comments.

user 63210:57882 words,8664 unique, in935 comments.

user 84634:91283 words,10517 unique, in1296 comments.

user 33014:224277 words,14804 unique, in2249 comments.

user 39010:674348 words,35191 unique, in16829 comments.

user 30089:22362 words,3859 unique, in375 comments.

user 17646:225690 words,21174 unique, in5420 comments.

user 69556:130832 words,11920 unique, in1829 comments.

user 54984:77086 words,8125 unique, in981 comments.

user 20613:67188 words,10341 unique, in790 comments.

user 116224:100135 words,8737 unique, in901 comments.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:11:28 -0800

PPM = ??

Parts per million. That is, if you scaled the source corpus (in this case, a given user's total set of comments) so that it had exactly one million words in it, the PPM value for a given word is the number of times that word would have appeared.

So if "the" has a PPM value of say 50000, that means that 50,000 out of 1,000,000 words would have been "the", or 50K/1M = .05 = 5%. One in every twenty words is "the".

You can easily manually calculate this for any word in the frequency table by dividing it's raw number of occurrences in the table by the total word count for the table, but having it precalculated in the table makes it much more convenient to do comparisons between different tables to find how proportions differ from one corpus to another. If you were just comparing raw word count form one table to another that'd tell you basically nothing if the tables weren't calculated from corpora of identical size.

By: alms

alms — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:11:36 -0800

Pretty fact friend
hard last used enough.

Put 1 anything doing never
own case made, though you'll keep sounds.

Tell while few pay
world part same course.

Such old point.
2 without
here.

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:27:21 -0800

Good morning! youngergirl44 through philipy, below

Not sure if I wasn't clear enough above or was just skipped accidentally but I would like to join the data analysis party.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:52:17 -0800

My Top 10 has flow.

"I to the A, and that is it for you!"

By: philipy

philipy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:53:06 -0800

I'm thinking it would be interesting to find out which words I use a lot more frequently than is common. Does anyone know of any handy resources for doing that? e.g. A list of most frequently used words, or a frequency table of words?

Any rough and ready becnhmark is fine, as this is just for fun.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:04:42 -0800

philipy, check your memail. (Those are word you use more frequently, compared to all the other people on mefi.)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:12:32 -0800

That is exactly what I was hoping for also, would this be possible to put together for me also benito.strauss?

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:17:12 -0800

Give me a whack while you're at it. And given the popularity of the idea, maybe I'll go ahead and put together an adjunct script on my side so I can run these automatically as part of the generation process and save you the effort in the future.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:18:22 -0800

Hey, I'd also like that as well, benito.strauss. Although, no worries if it's too much bother.

By: Iteki

Iteki — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:21:13 -0800

If the novelty hasn't worn off benito.strauss, I would be curious about that for me too.

By: EvaDestruction

EvaDestruction — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:23:46 -0800

I would be interested in the benito.strauss analysis, too.

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:30:17 -0800

Hey, that would be swell!

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:35:49 -0800

Me too, benito!

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:52:10 -0800

Ha. Satisfying:

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:

anony, signups, subsites, userid, munging, nixing, not-great, nomic, munged, asker's, answerers, bugbread, meficomp, followups, per-user, hiya, undeleted, dayjob, sidebarring, datawankery, askers, answerer, fight-starting, metadiscussion, bright-line, rothko, munge, gnfti, jonson, lofi, this'd, usernumber, administratively, mefi-related, heya

Words you use much more than anyone else:

infodump, dios, deletions, asker, matt's, subsite, deletion, jess, nixed, flagging, mefimail, driveby, timeout, metacommentary, konolia, goddam, pb, self-links, chatfilter, metatalk, bumpy, toolset, in-thread, clearcut, callouts, chatty, x-com, dhoyt, referrer, jessamyn's, matteo, followup

So a ton of job-specific mefi jargon, a few user names, and two games I'm obsessive about. That feels about right, and actually feels more close to home than my recommended tags for My Mefi since that tends to be influenced a lot more heavily by the blue threads I have to tell people to simmer down in and so tends to capture incidental tag exposure rather than working vocabulary.

What's your metric for the two categories, benito?

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:52:47 -0800

cortex: I feel like the kid who finally decides to be not scared of the roller coasters right as the the park is closing, but if you're still running numbers, I'd appreciate being included. I didn't think I cared, but now I do (which might end up as my epitaph)

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:57:58 -0800

I always knew I was a Rasta Javanese man at heart. That only proved it.

By: philipy

philipy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:58:12 -0800

It turns out my list is:

c2, msc, datapoints, goodreads, grandmaster, pinboard, malawi, eq, hamming, univ, asker

I'd be interested to know how that was produced. I guess that is *very* unusual words I've used a few times. From my reading of my file I was also curious whether I use words like "because" and "probably" a lot more often than most.

I guess msc is the downcased version of MSc, though I'm surprised I mention that more than most. And I guess maybe other people don't abbreviate university to univ but something else, and call people who ask questions something other than "the asker".

And c2 and eq most likely come from just one answer to a question about probabilities where I answered with a bunch of cases (C1, C2, ...) and equations (Eq 1, Eq 2, ...) and discussed them in detail.

But you'd be right in concluding from the list that I know some stats, like books and chess, use pinboard a lot, etc.

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:08:41 -0800

Thanks, benito!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
bensonhurst, xiu, ows, dashiell, 01100101, doorman, mentallo, puggle, gerd, gcal, adderal, tovarisch, god-knows-what-else, newsradio, 2nding, gaiden, punk-rock, uscis, thwack, sf4, early-30s, kontroll, de-friend, lactaid, csar, llcs, tekken, pomade, tanf, slim-fit, phantasmagoric, dietitian, edm, 99c, trip-hop, jameco, hammett's, barcade, shmuck, late-20s, existenz, levittown, gammond

Words you use much more than anyone else:
i-9, cuny, ukranian, melatonin, bushwick, glamorama, cronenberg's, god-knows-what, onstad, quotidian

Something funny: I use the word "xiu" heavily, but that's only because I refer to the band "Xiu Xiu." I wonder how stuff like that effects the rest of the stats (both cortex's and benito's.)

Also, I am enjoying the fact that I use the words "tovarisch" and "shmuck" regularly enough for it to make a list of any sort.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:11:12 -0800

For the user words that didn't appear in the list of SiteWords, I cut it off at 10 PPM.

For words that appear in both, I report those with UserFreq/SiteFreq > 40.0, so you're at least 40 times more likely to use those words than the average MeFite.

It's pretty easy to run the script, so if anyone else would like their results, just post in here with "Cloud me". I'll memail you the results, but I hope you'll post it here.

BTW, if you're looking for the one word in there that is "your word", I think you should take the first word in the second list. The first list is kind of iffy, as there's no site data compare it against. And the lists are ordered by decreasing importance.

Going by that standard, my word is "Knotted", which is fine, and strangely more appropriate the more I think about it.

/I really encourage jessamyn to report her word.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:14:12 -0800

benito, may I also request that you do this for me?

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:16:44 -0800

"Cloud me"?

Cloudmir?

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:17:44 -0800

Cloud me, Benito!

If I had a nickel, yada yada...

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:20:04 -0800

benito--me too, please!

Also, I've apparently said stuff 268 times. And t-rex 11.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:24:31 -0800

YESSSSSSSS

Words you use much more than anyone else:
tsp, cloves, confit, vous, coon, gurgeh, worf, vo, ds9, riker's, apfelwein, nh, romulan, ferengi, cheesecloth, riker, uu, bite-sized, dhalgren, tussles, sandpaper, centaur, breading, comme, acetone, romulans, darkseid, tartan, greenpoint, troi, starfleet, artie, deep-fry, geordi, parakeet, upenn, oregano, edamame, saucepan, cayenne, bitchin, peachy, marinade, hermes, woolf, frist, parsley, tablespoon, spaniard, manhunter, teaspoon, toffee, simmer, galbraith, nous, mead, liqueur, laphroaig, splotches

This is like the Bayeux Tapestry for the inside of my mind

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:25:30 -0800

Benito, could you please cloud me? Thanks!

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:27:47 -0800

Also laughing pretty hard at this selection from "Words you use that practically no one else does":

plot-point, hampshirite, autobio, bum-bum, hampshirites, finntroll

By: thinkpiece

thinkpiece — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:29:20 -0800

First, thank you, cortex!

Next, benito, benito, me, me!

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:30:30 -0800

God, Greg, you never do shut up about the time you got backstage at that Finntroll show in Concord, do you?

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:30:36 -0800

Ooo I would like that cloud thing too please!

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:30:37 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
slingbox, multifilter, easement, communique, bloodwork, renal, clabby, gostak, veterinarians, behaviorist, deskology, tplo, secretlife, headboard, broksonic, babymama, prosted, crockety, beston, euthanize

Words you use much more than anyone else:
veterinary, urinary, metafilters, vet, burlington, overdraft, acl, montpelier, fenway, espn's, wiimote, embroidery, tufts, asker, picasa, limping, urination, orthopedic, notary, listerine

That is eerie.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:30:41 -0800

Cloud me, please and thank you!

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:31:16 -0800

God, Greg, you never do shut up about the time you got backstage at that Finntroll show in Concord, do you?

also about all the mad bum-bum I touched at that show

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:31:29 -0800

(I turned mefimail back on and everything)

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:32:37 -0800

Well, what happens between you and Samu "Beast Dominator" Ruotsalainen stays in Samu "Beast Dominator" Ruotsalainen.

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:32:46 -0800

Wait hang on that came out wrong.

By: dpx.mfx

dpx.mfx — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:33:22 -0800

me too please

By: thinkpiece

thinkpiece — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:34:29 -0800

I mean, cloud me! I didn't read the directions! I'm sorry!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:35:20 -0800

Folks (esp. the young rope-rider), you have to ask cortex to generate the listing first before I can cloud you.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:37:07 -0800

thinkpiece, your words are in your MeFi mail.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:39:18 -0800

ME ME CLOUD ME

plz

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:40:45 -0800

If it's helpful, I'm second from the bottom of the first batch Cortex ran.

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:42:00 -0800

Oh, benito.strauss, I would be your best friend! I'm dying to know my unique frequency words :D

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:42:42 -0800

Folks (esp. the young rope-rider), you have to ask cortex to generate the listing first before I can cloud you.

I didn't read the whole thread, I just came to read about bum-bums and puggles, sorry I am so confused, cortex can you do this thing? Is it too late? I bet my word is gonna be "dude" (or "gonna").

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:42:46 -0800

shellycat, it should be in your memail, with the very useful subject line of "Y" (should have been "Your words". Oops).

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:43:45 -0800

Thanks!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
reddits, askreddit, hsv, luminance, partials, bombadil, f2, allele, photoreceptor, ludum, lbh, tms, hippocampus, mass-having, n-k, extraversion, addclass, eigenvector, eyedropper, unir

Words you use much more than anyone else:
subreddits, cyan, becky, rgb, var, centaur, nonpartisan, gur, hue, vg, recessive, ovulation, jfc, convolution, datapoints, drezdn, thalamus, n-1, associative, yoshi's

My sockpuppet will have to be "Bombadil's hippocampus" or "Yoshi's ovulation".

Also, uh, sorry about talking about reddit so much. I just wish reddit and metafilter could get along.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:43:45 -0800

All the cool kids are being clouded. Why not me?

(thanks)

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:43:50 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
obvsly, hungrily, grotendous, meniere's, sammiches, idek, tampax, daytrana, lactaid, hilarrible, vickers, sry, finlandia, blankie, ibiza, trufax, pleh, mishegoss, lapdancing, janek

Words you use much more than anyone else:
idk, prolly, lactose, migraines, poc, derp, seekrit, sammich, kitteh, bedazzled, googly, gramma, ghastly, etsy, rambly, westside, holloway, noms, idris, vexing

SCREAMY LOLS

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:45:23 -0800

The Corpus of Contemporary American English

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:47:54 -0800

"The Corpus of Contemporary American English" does not contain the word 'grotendous'. I reject your corpus.

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:51:11 -0800

Holy crap it's like my whole life reduced to a couple of lists of words:

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
reflux, orthotics, ibd, podiatrist, anti-inflammatory, gerd, astigmatism, kiwifruit, polymorphism, nutrigenomics, ppis, cattery, hydrated, pharmac, rumen, merino, physiologist, ringworm, antihistamines, trademe

Words you use much more than anyone else:
ibs, dietician, optometrist, msc, auckland, sentance, anaesthetic, inflammation, nz, endnote, gait, ug, sinus, constipation, mandy, ferrous, practise, multivitamin, intestinal, hydration

(livestock, weird or icky health problems, some obscure biology, and my now-dead (of old age) cat)

Thank you so much benito.strauss!

By: Turkey Glue

Turkey Glue — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:51:17 -0800

Sure! I'd love to quantify my internet existence.

By: philipy

philipy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:51:45 -0800

All the cool kids are being clouded. Why not me?

At last I am counted among the cool kids.

But why were my results in a different format than everyone else's huh?

*Frets that his juiciest data got lost*

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:53:25 -0800

I also love that my distinctive 'word' is ibs. I still remember sitting in seventh form biology drawing a kidney and deciding I'm going to study intestines for ever.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:56:30 -0800

The COCA would be a good thing to do a sort of baseline comparison to the larger Mefi Corpus frequency tables themselves, to establish how site usage itself varies compared to a more general collection of English language usage in a variety of modes, yeah, as well as to identify site-specific jargon by looking for relatively common terms in local usage that don't appear in the more general corpus at all.

I played around with that briefly at one point, in fact, but didn't get very far into it and don't know what I did with the output.

By: stupidsexyFlanders

stupidsexyFlanders — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:58:01 -0800

I would like the cortex thing and the benito thing please, thank you.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:59:42 -0800

my now-dead (of old age) cat

Ferrous Rumen sounds like she was a good pet and a fine companion.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:03:41 -0800

Thanks! This is awesome!

From my list, you can tell that I...

Have a ton of medical issues, enjoy crafting and cake and pie, live in Chicago and love Chinese food, and am weirdly into ear cleanliness. Sounds about right.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
chiari, pilsen, malformation, n'thing, whatsit, stenciling, consular, hbc, jacquard, bookbag, pumice, cipro, sze, ricotta, carlsbad, gerd, chuan, neutrogena, 5'7, tomochichi

Words you use much more than anyone else:
nordstrom, phunniemee, tsp, fondant, q-tip, neurologist, rhubarb, lao, landlady, mspaint, prosciutto, ziplock, levi's, poopy, hiccups, savannah, zit, acetone, aldous, creamer

By: purpleclover

purpleclover — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:04:35 -0800

Cloud me! Whee!

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:09:10 -0800

"'The Corpus of Contemporary American English' does not contain the word 'grotendous'. I reject your corpus."

Heh. I just threw that up there for anyone who is interested and motivated.

In my case, I am both frustrated and relieved that I do not know enough about either linguistic corpus analysis or statistics to attempt to do what I'm feeling an almost unbearable itch to do. That means that I'll shrug the urge off in the next few minutes instead of spending the next fifteen hours doing stuff that would probably be reinventing the wheel. Leaving me time to, I dunno, read some other genre novel or sleep. I suppose that's a win.

But my curiosity is piqued because my corpus here is pretty large: 1.2M words as EB and 450K in this incarnation, for a total of 1.7 million words. That works out to be about 152 per comment when I was EB, and 255 words per comment now. My top twenty words are the same and almost in exactly the same order in both incarnations. And the word should is the 100th most common word in both.

The analysis I'd be interested in — not that benito.strauss's isn't also quite interesting — would be ignoring the true rarities and instead look, among the widely used nouns and verbs, those which are used quite abnormally more frequently (or rarely). Yeah, yeah...that sort of analysis is pretty much tempting one to do what I was warning against earlier (and a warning a certified professional linguist underscored). But, you know, I'm human and fallible and more curious than is good for me.

By: MultiFaceted

MultiFaceted — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:17:00 -0800

Here's some fun poetry from my list (each word used 20 times):

Cat couldn't deal exactly
friend happy
issue
looks mental

Add your own punctuation and line breaks for additional interpretations!

By: MultiFaceted

MultiFaceted — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:21:53 -0800

Cloud me too!

By: usonian

usonian — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:25:07 -0800

I can has cloud too? Please and thank you.

By: peppermind

peppermind — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:52:11 -0800

If it's not too late, quantify and cloud me, please.

By: troika

troika — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:53:41 -0800

Benito, if you don't mind....

(thanks!)

By: MultiFaceted

MultiFaceted — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:54:01 -0800

Hmmm....apparently I like medical sounding words.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
pcos, bcbs, eap, bloodwork, scoliosis, i-55, jeweler, orthopedist, banquets, mucinex, bcp, girardeau, workup, trazodone, msw, insurances, i-40, clomid, gallbladder, iupui

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
uhc, cysts, endocrinologist, ianad, inpatient, wellbutrin, consignment, uti, mediator, counselor, pcp, meds, outpatient, therapist, taper, hospitalization, counseling, antidepressant, pharmacist, adjuster

By: maudlin

maudlin — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:00:41 -0800

Please, please, please, let me get on that cloud -- thanks!

By: likeso

likeso — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:05:40 -0800

Oh, me too, please benito!

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:11:06 -0800

me too!

By: Eyebrows McGee

Eyebrows McGee — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:21:53 -0800

I talk a lot about schools and toddlers/babies, no surprise there.

But I am delighted that the words "bookmobile" and "dramarama" turned up on my "words you use heavily that no one else does." Also "dressy." It's weird that none of you are using "dressy," that's a totally normal word.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:26:36 -0800

Also "dressy." It's weird that none of you are using "dressy," that's a totally normal word.

I'm just ashamed at the rest of you for underusing prosciutto.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:30:37 -0800

One of my most common words (that isn't found in the site file) is "egt" - I appear to mistype "get" a lot (13 times!).

By: Dysk

Dysk — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:37:43 -0800

Cloud me! (Unless you're completely snowed under with requests, of course!)

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:38:13 -0800

Dramarama is a great word, one I'm eager to use. Er, I just don't know what it means.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:38:25 -0800

The latest batch, burnmp3s through Corduroy. Tables.

user 63307:618305 words,24581 unique, in4826 comments.

user 24139:295692 words,17780 unique, in3129 comments.

user 111601:361242 words,16903 unique, in4703 comments.

user 21945:131353 words,9679 unique, in1550 comments.

user 92600:20225 words,4209 unique, in212 comments.

user 15461:173483 words,17089 unique, in3766 comments.

user 125051:6435 words,2047 unique, in139 comments.

user 64727:738 words,377 unique, in11 comments.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:39:47 -0800

A dramarama is a festival of drama, a drama nexus. A system defined by its high drama quotient.

One who precipitates a dramarama is generally a drama rocket.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:46:41 -0800

Variations on "drama".

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:48:36 -0800

Okay, I am curious what words I use more than other people do.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:49:38 -0800

Okay NOW you can cloud me! THANK YOU! (AND THANKS, CORTEX!)

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:51:15 -0800

cortex: "Variations on "drama"."

My Great-Uncle was killed in a dramamine cave-in.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:59:15 -0800

Pharmacy shelves fell over on him?

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:01:09 -0800

cortex: The userid for corduroy looks to me like '64724' not '64727'.

By: ambrosia

ambrosia — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:06:01 -0800

Is it too late to ask benito.strauss to cloud me? Pretty please?

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:14:23 -0800

I like clouds if that's a thing that's getting done.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:17:37 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
reflux, endometriosis, fetlife, klonopin, vyvanse, breakups, gerd, benzos, cosleeping, benzodiazapenes, dbt, gastroenterologist, mbti, rheumatologist, weissbluth, forceps, pediatrics, caretaking, short-acting, preform

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
non-monogamous, non-monogamy, rope-rider, cio, adderall, post-partum, dissociation, astoria, stimulant, abatement, autoimmune, adhd, stimulants, agoraphobia, auto-immune, seroquel, sinus, advil, uu, asker

I like how one of them is just me not being able to spell.

By: rmd1023

rmd1023 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:21:07 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
fetlife, circlet, arginine, lysine, cryp, passwordsafe, clubman, ovary, penninsula, instructables, delica, romex, harrah's, mbta, rmd, badassed, skete, noticable, fnx, boxcutter

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
somerville, hysterectomy, electrician, crochet, ovarian, cysts, griswold, pyro, cpap, live-in, crocheted, optionally, ovaries, electricians, dorchester, sailboat, bidet, lanyard, softener, 70mm

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY (now-removed) LADY PARTS!

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:21:20 -0800

The userid for corduroy looks to me like '64724' not '64727'.

Fixed! That did seem awful quiet.

user 64724:37890 words,4856 unique, in1173 comments.

By: likeso

likeso — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:22:37 -0800

Thank you, benito!
And that was completely weird. With few exceptions, all the words I used heavily that practically no-one else did were usernames. But first on the list was my own username. Also high in use was its possesive. Both had me stumped because I don't think I ever have... until I realized the "Mr." had been stripped. So that's okay then.

Also, yay, tanuki, Islay and Laphraoig!

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:28:55 -0800

Cloud me too please

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:30:09 -0800

Yes, I'd appreciate that information as well. Very kind of you to do this.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:31:55 -0800

I always knew I was fond of the creating hyphenated compounds to try to get my point across online but my list really shows it might be more of a problem than I realized.

But please cloud me if you can so I can make sure.

(Thanks for this -- both those of you who are doing the work and those of you who are getting as geeked about it as I am.)

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:39:16 -0800

Cloud me too please, if it's not too much trouble and doesn't get in the way of eating, sleeping and generally living your life.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:40:05 -0800

Am I too late for the benito treatment?

By: box

box — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:43:41 -0800

I'd like that thing too, if possible, please.

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:47:59 -0800

I don't even know what this cloud thing is but I am but a sheeple so me too, please! and please god I would like it if work stop freaking out long enough for me to float in the cloud for a little while.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:49:33 -0800

cloud powers activate! Thanks, benito.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:02:37 -0800

If this isn't over... sign me up!

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:04:52 -0800

Benito, since you seem to be a fount of generous wisdom, I would like to find out exactly how pedestrian I am.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:06:51 -0800

I too would like to live in a cloud.

By: Iteki

Iteki — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:11:06 -0800

My benito list is hysterical, thank you benito.strauss!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
equivelant, sammiges, safir, jklmnop, gotland, neger, scandyland, editplus, drawdio, adress, sammige, ballymun, alt-1, jnkping, absolutly, jellyish, tissot, hurra, mbits, barrys, siobhan, b1, semi-fitted, och, ovary, wallander, zzzz, ane, dealextreme, brun, webmonkey, bests, swedex, svenska, lyons, svarting, sugru, chrono

Words you use much more than anyone else:
somone, cloves, ftr, ofredande, starbuck, duvet, divx, sexuellt, stepmom, dcu, icecream, a1, worksheet, exif, det, asa, sapphire, scuse, mats, mu, apparantly, stockholm, knickers, swedes, xxxx, kan, slimmer, keystroke, eachother, thirding, auntie, cv, noone, semi-regular, swede, bobs, mcd, youse, cos, aspx, alba, whiteboard, sweden, teaspoon, handball, prolly, swedish, mame, swimmers, fab, darlingbri, scandinavia, womans, petrol, sakes, omigod, battlestar, dublin

Point the first, I can't spell for shit, but I am consistent with it!
My special subjects are: Battlestar Galactica, knickers, brands of Irish tea, classic windows uttilities and racist Swedish slang.

By: daisyk

daisyk — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:13:08 -0800

If it's not too late, please could I also be quantified and clouded? Thank you, cortex and benito.strauss!

By: griphus

griphus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:19:19 -0800

Will pay $$$ to see Battlestar Dublin.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:22:49 -0800

I would love this too please, benito, if you would be so kind! Much gratitude.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:27:41 -0800

Hey, I'm down for both as well! Serves me right for ignoring Talk for days...

By: b33j

b33j — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:10:20 -0800

Thanks Cortex!

By: danny the boy

danny the boy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:11:45 -0800

benito, cloud me bro

By: b33j

b33j — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:13:02 -0800

benito.strauss? please cloud me?

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:15:31 -0800

Could I be clouded as well?

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:22:03 -0800

me too benito please

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:32:13 -0800

Can I get clouded?

By: argonauta

argonauta — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:37:18 -0800

Ooh, benito, can I have the cloudiness too? This is awesome.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:21:03 -0800

Yes, benito, I must also be compared to others.

By: deborah

deborah — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:22:13 -0800

Oh dear. "I" is #2 on my list. "Fuck" on its own is at 26 although there are many other uses of it. Swearing is fun!

By: Jofus

Jofus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:35:56 -0800

Yes please with jam on.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:49:17 -0800

Take me up to your cloud, benito, if you please!

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:53:24 -0800

Earlier I did my math wrong and have spent the rest of the afternoon thinking my comments averaged 950+ words per. Watch your decimals, folks.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:01:12 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
prospero, doodle-do, ba-dum, mcnamara, hermeneutic, caliban, teeshirt, pequod's, yeager, thready, tideland, pedway, baziotes, murch, yoink, antoninus, loughner, metaphysic, serrano's, gilliam's

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
beale, omigod, kathrineg, kronos, lydia, ladin, eraserhead, muh, metafictional, koopa, teevee, shakespeherian's, x-rated, nc-17, camilla, pemulis, zimmerman, obviates, mulholland, caruso

If I posted this anonymously everyone would guess it was me anyway.

By: box

box — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:10:35 -0800

Please generate my file, if you don't mind, cortex.

By: b33j

b33j — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:12:51 -0800

oooh, thanks benito!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
cairns, veges, mossman, h00py, hygene, qut, vege, uq, b33j, centrelink, daintree, cindarella, quitters, qld, cqu, townsville, socialise, wetcanvas, bushwalking, ex-smokers

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
queensland, ipswich, mccaffrey, endnote, committment, counselling, lecturers, pseudoephedrine, brisbane, whereever, mindfulness, apologised, a1, sympathise, counsellors, icecream, askme's, tinned, uni, hairdresser

I'm kinda scared now. Icecream, really? I bet some of this is because of my non-US spelling. Also, hello h00py, it appears I'm stalking you.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:14:02 -0800

benito.strauss is a prince among men:

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
allele, cygwin, workrave, bollards, germline, mpb, indent, refundable, seq, belltown, kuro5hin, win32, bhrt, vnc, priceline, mphil, methylation, fdic-insured, kinesis, paddington

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
flyertalk, gbp, komen, utc, merriam-webster, grouse, thinkpad, issuer, thinkpads, endnote, alleles, dict, rei, airline's, hsbc, eviction, fremont, rsi, str, eur

By: rtha

rtha — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:16:43 -0800

I hug you, benito.strauss!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
birding, yorvit, binos, metas, menlo, headlands, peregrines, crissy, gay-married, starlings, frjtz, unvaccinated, redtails, birders, annulled, distilleries, couple-three, reacher, redtail, recs

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
gingerbeer, askmes, peregrine, pdx, sfo, islay, full-fat, potrero, raptors, francisco's, haight, schmoopy, rei, separatists, ianad, wf, relationshipfilter, mefimail, dartmouth, meetups

It's a shame that more people don't use the word "distilleries." The world would likely be a happier place.

By: jadepearl

jadepearl — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:20:17 -0800

Sure.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:22:30 -0800

Hey cloudy folks. I stepped out for dinner (at a restaurant that this comment directed me to). I've gone through and done all the people who have asked and who had cortex's files available.

If I didn't send you email, get cortex to make your file, and then post in here again. I'll come back and look for requests starting after this comment of mine.

And may I say, having seen deep into the secret hearts of many of you, and having visited more profile pages in one day than in the past year (as part of sending the memail), y'all are deliciously weird and a fine looking group of people.

P.S. And thanks, cortex, for creating the extracts.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:27:29 -0800

Oh, please, benito, please, I want you to cloud me.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:29:52 -0800

I suspected that my cloud would out me as a physics nerd:

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
1023, u-233, antisymmetric, symmetries, nucleon, cesium, quantum-mechanical, nucleons, tritiated, lorentz, myr, polarizations, wavefunction, microstates, invariant, alphas, localhost, antiprotons, mev, unfalsifiable

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
nucleus, neutrons, nuclei, protons, muons, proton, neutron, c2, electrons, muon, decays, polarized, cambrian, long-lived, electron, angular, 033, parabola, lhc, fermions

CONFIRMED

By: gingerest

gingerest — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:40:09 -0800

Heh, I am outed as an epidemiologist who likes acronyms and apostrophes.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
epidemiologist, hcg, iany, hogweed, tapeworms, labials, dermatitis, allergist, spicata, executor, dvt, numinous, ramon, estate's, academy's, fmr, braiding, cdc's, hepatic, toileting

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
iana, iu, two-bedroom, hallowe'en, earplugs, ianad, leprosy, pillowcases, cadaver, adelaide, louse, ovulation, incision, anniversaries, influenza, pe, ovarian, cadavers, rabies, long-ago

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:44:55 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
rockridge, schuylkill, philadelphian, m-1, bendy-straw, divisible, one-bedroom, boltbus, phl, 46th, mathoverflow, locust, grothendieck, nomyte, robot-making, firstname, njt, stackexchange, 701735, stterlin, escabeche's, one-fourth, wharton, paulos, i-10, megabus, cinnaholic, chocolate-covered, swedesboro, probabilist, ratemyprofessors, cooperstown, 108th, doylestown, fiord, e0, dianda's, mlbaway, poisson, ashby, 551, sriracha, 01t, droit, m-by-n, mlbhome, ablow, binghamton, mhum, westbound, tetrahedra, yb, carrollton, zoneinfo, embarcadero, arctan, 2-part, apportionment, syllabi, dfriedman, 00875, subdivided, utc-11, grise, mollymayhem, gentrifiers, sublets, gowers, diagonal-to-side, mostlybeans, panhandler, bustelo, cannoli, chalkboards, spf, bite-size, polyhedra

Words you use much more than anyone else:
combinatorics, utc, sqrt, septa, madcaptenor, n-1, 1s, ithaca, bwi, blaise, combinatorial, 45th, madcap, phillies, timezone, trenton, housemates, escabeche, quadratic, philadelphia, lastname, 229, transpose, cloves, 395, 0s, beloit, 2n, gpas, turnpike, parkway, trolleys, fielder, english-speakers, klout, 34th, eastbound, kippur, binomial, fellowships, out-of-state, chipotle, quarts, markov, posterior, ln, palindromes, cheesesteaks, oxen, 30th, kilogram, mathematician, maryr, algebraic, newark, matrices, yom, benito, gerryblog, e-mails, tutors, centimeters, i-95, desi, one-year, philly, departmental, chalkboard, payrolls, east-west, undergrads, berkeley, grande, amtrak, euclid, provolone, circumference, coefficient, northampton, non-academic, cross-country, uc

I think it's interesting that my lists are longer than other people's who have posted here (unless you guys are editing). Does that mean I'm somehow weirder? For some of these I actually remember the time that I posted about them. And this pretty much outs me as an academic mathematician who has lived in Philadelphia and the Bay Area. In particular it's kind of weird that random numbers show up.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:57:49 -0800

I didn't edit mine.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:00:39 -0800

me, please, benito.strauss.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:02:35 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
withnail, orig, psot, chalkhills, poshlost, karst, whilest, caver, dery, catarrh, poisonwood, blackfoot, aquismon, celica, prefs, vreeland, posas, moulding, mexi-jazz, cobbler

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
basses, s'pose, cavers, xtc, fsck, fretless, long-run, rancher, caving, porcupine, lobos, flameout, monterrey, tree's, longhorns, g3, g5, single-user, austin's, goddam

Pretty much sums it up. Music loving, apple-using, book-reading, outdoorsy counter-culture-consuming Austinite. Unique and special, just like the other million of us.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:08:50 -0800

I would love to be part of this party please...

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:30:06 -0800

madcaptenor: I experimented a bit with different ways of choosing how many words to take from the sorted list. Yours was generated before I put in a hard cut-off of at most 20.

By: Ghidorah

Ghidorah — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:17 -0800

benito.strauss, thanks for my list. I, uh, uh....

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
ueno, narita, asakusa, harajuku, ubud, kamakura, tanuki, izakaya, saute, tepco, fukushima, wuhan, efl, kuta, phuket, nikko, ameyoko, kanto, bugbread, miso

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
chiba, shinjuku, nhk, oregano, minced, snorkeling, bali, blackouts, waikiki, loin, charcuterie, kanji, skewers, lemongrass, thyme, ianad, asahi, cumin, gaijin, balinese

So, Japan, cooking, Asia. I feel pretty one note at this point.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:50:32 -0800

I'm really bummed that quincunx didn't make either list. i've tried so hard.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:52:53 -0800

Thanks benito.strauss, it was a glimpse into my self-centered self!

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:27:49 -0800

548.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
talulah, icelander, lightly-soiled, bolao [Bolaño], silencio, triple-zero, mulp, codenamed, clzio [Clézio], arneson, alekhine, tulinius, hossein, capablanca, kri [Kári], lunit, breivik, mller [Müller], salmacis, catullus

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
lederhosen, reykjavk [Reykjavík], kickball, icelandic, icelanders, reykjavik, tripoli, lobster, likelier, blogpost, sagas, merriam-webster, roberto, intertubes, byzantium, bugle, earthsea, anglophone, meet-up, iceland

By: zarq

zarq — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:28:56 -0800

benito, could I trouble you? :)

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:36:52 -0800

Me me!!

By: cmyk

cmyk — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:37:22 -0800

This looks like fun. May I have my weird-words list?

By: zamboni

zamboni — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:19:29 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
mml, tipi, dixieland, edc, vishanti, wahoo, kiowa, msl, roo, breivik, lcc, thiokol, marionberry, stick-head, 2cv, ub, docteur, hotdish, canth, tineye

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
zamboni, carbonation, meteorites, ithaca, beetroot, mer, barnum, osorio, grog, pasties, whoopie, lutefisk, armoured, cloves, leatherman, three-toed, chiro, gak, impassable, spelt

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:26:10 -0800

lightly-soiled?

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:28:38 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
1e4c5, bd7, 3bb5, 2nc3d6, 4nge2bxb5, 5nxb5qd7, 6nbc3nc6, 7d3e6, 9d4bxg5, 8bg5be7, http402, 10dxc50-0-0, 11h4bf6, 12cxd6qxd6, djahandarie, 13qxd6rxd6, 14h5nge7, 15h6g6, 16rd1rxd1, 17kxd1rd8

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
lucasarts, greenaway, juv3nal, maxx, tri, kieth, mana, win2k, takeshi, tpb, psn, barthes, ruiz, autechre, confield, cfm, tableau, stylesheet, seekrit, cheezy

LOL. my epic chess match with fladablet appears to be dominating the count. also I am inordinately proud of barthes & seekrit being on the more common list.

By: zarq

zarq — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:28:20 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
trurl, haggadah, fyodorovich, restless_nomad, paterno, bnd, siri, pcos, comfrey, memails, sopa, conlin, ret, bris, perinatologist, amniotic, judeophobia, villanelles, reflux, sandusky

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
ovarian, abbas, ha'aretz, iui, antisemitic, squabble, non-jews, rope-rider, hoder, circumcisions, pb, antisemitism, non-orthodox, poet_lariat

The Greasemonkey quote script tilts the answers. Without user names, the words become:

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
haggadah, paterno, bnd, siri, pcos, comfrey, memails, sopa, conlin, ret, bris, perinatologist, amniotic, judeophobia, reflux, sandusky

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
ovarian, abbas, ha'aretz, iui, antisemitic, non-jews, circumcisions, antisemitism, non-orthodox

These are really not the words I would have expected. Also, I seem to talk a lot about Jews. :D

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:33:46 -0800

Benito! Me please!

By: sweetkid

sweetkid — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:15:15 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
sweetkid, brosh, xarnop, miko's, benzos, therapist's, klonopin, appt, journaling, myrick, trolly, seattle_surfer_geek, hotlines, bops, meowing, frizz, allergist, goren, smash's, villanelles

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
therapist, allie, womp, hotline, dumbo, shingles, therapists, twop, josephine, bombay, palomar, hawke, chianti, amir, irene, copywriter, extroverts, montezuma, quidnunc, therapy

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:24:31 -0800

Cloud me!

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:45:19 -0800

Cortex, please make me a list?

By: cmyk

cmyk — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:56:57 -0800

Cortex, can I have one too?

By: KathrynT

KathrynT — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:17:42 -0800

Man, that what-words-identify-you thing looks fun! Benito, in your copious free time, would you do one for me?

By: the latin mouse

the latin mouse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:47:12 -0800

Would you cloud me, please?

By: Iteki

Iteki — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:54:58 -0800

We could have had a bunch o fun playing having benito.strauss just post the lists and let us guess who it was. I smell a mefi-minigame in the making.

By: Saydur

Saydur — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:21:18 -0800

I picked a fine day to sleep in. Count me in on the "want want want!"

By: Dysk

Dysk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:33:17 -0800

Report for user 84634

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
screamo, avaliable, dimebag, w-9, janteloven, xr, antonym, crayz, effexor, aberfeldy, paracetamol, vicars, mclusky, xubuntu, venlafaxine, reverie, 40aa, webern, runkelfinker, breivik

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
pantera, intensively, socialised, tak, moslem, cloves, pronoiac, industrially, diablevert, i'd've, childrearing, pop-ups, amusedetachment, tranny, marisa, jaduncan, prefixes, coexistence, cis, esa

I thought "I'd've" would be further up the list, really, but it seems more people use it than I'd've thought...

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:06:55 -0800

benito.strauss, please cloud me. Thank you! I appreciate it!

By: philipy

philipy — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:41:19 -0800

"Cloud me" is beginning to sound like a euphemism.

Maybe there should be T-shirts: "I got clouded by Benito".

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:49:14 -0800

I LIKE CLOUDY CLOUDS AS IF IT WERE MY PROFESSION

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:13:44 -0800

Just to be clear - my previous request was to cortex. Quantify me!

... please?

By: rtha

rtha — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:16:09 -0800

"I paid $5 (SAIT) and all I got was clouded by benito.strauss"

By: philipy

philipy — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:24:24 -0800

I think cortex should write a song: "Quantify me, baby!"

You know you want to.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:05:14 -0800

I am not a number, I am a man! A man made out of numbers.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:06:22 -0800

Alright, here we go, from WCityMike on down. Get your tables here.

user 22023:356666 words,25113 unique, in4440 comments.

user 64035:58102 words,8189 unique, in1316 comments.

user 72963:8344 words,2101 unique, in103 comments.

user 31444:59171 words,7823 unique, in1056 comments.

user 1574:61616 words,9226 unique, in2109 comments.

user 17573:290452 words,25149 unique, in10154 comments.

user 14594:105039 words,11803 unique, in1267 comments.

user 23037:67294 words,10005 unique, in1920 comments.

user 18064:587672 words,28208 unique, in11534 comments.

user 21202:72180 words,9560 unique, in1005 comments.

user 84093:54695 words,7428 unique, in1169 comments.

user 18726:113506 words,11286 unique, in864 comments.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:47:40 -0800

All this treating my Perl scripting as if it were a smutty sexual act?

I really, really like it.

By: daisyk

daisyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:49:10 -0800

Yay, thanks cortex! benito.strauss, could you cloud me now please?

This is my first time writing 'fuck' on MeFi in any of its forms. I'm such a goody two shoes.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:21:46 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
bhin, clomp, runnable, hap, gdansk, rial, pars, rasp, heil, malodourous, ail, 38000, sdb, tigress, hasp, haps, zeldman, nils, 24000, 48000

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
stag, blam, lain, nantucket, lira, 54000, 31000, trams, 22000, rani, 33000, 29000, matriarchal, springtime, 51000, doggies, 49000, 69000, 34000, 18000

Thanks, benito.strauss.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:46:12 -0800

The only words I use heavily that (practically) no one else does that weren't proper nouns or Metafilter handles were:

wineskin, homesteading, cockring

On a related note, I think everybody should copy their clouds into their profiles because I think it's pretty telling whether you want it to be or not.

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:51:06 -0800

I think everybody should copy their clouds into their profiles because I think it's pretty telling whether you want it to be or not.

Good idea. Done!

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:54:05 -0800

Okay, sure, why not.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:12:23 -0800

Joy! benito, please cloud me. Cloud me good.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:16:43 -0800

I as well am ready for my clouding. Thanks muchly in advance!

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:25:44 -0800

benito is fast! Here's what I've got.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
cujo, nikkormat, tpd, cowbells, palmetto, cannoli, ftn, mina, anole, hiaasen, ybor, 120mm, instamatics, spousing, dramamine, zednik, floridian, tesseract, wossits, wharg

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
cmyk, estonian, basset, tampa, garp, clang, kibble, roscoe, pup, komen, kimono, spasms, cantankerous, crate, pepe, full-grown, parrots, gators, winamp, great-aunt

So... dogs, cameras, Florida locales and animals, my crazy immigrant family, onomatopoeia, and my god-forsaken killer cat.

Sounds about right.

By: yellowbinder

yellowbinder — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:33:42 -0800

Super fast! Fuck yeah Culdcept!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
addable, sleater-kinney, culdcept, nuit, skyrim, digitizer, gangbang, showrunners, rb1, zuneboards, dufferin, toonie, bejewelled, saint's, timeport, bev, hmv, microprose, streamclip, damacy

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
gta4, paulie, 366, pinback, winamp, worf, zune, phair, shingles, podcasting, eglinton, hodgman, slumber, katamari, dv, snipe, sheryl, shithead, andreas, breakup

By: Wretch729

Wretch729 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:37:08 -0800

Benito are you still clouding? Can you do me? Thanks.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:45:18 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
migs, jonson, hama7, amberglow, rushmc, y2karl's, scarabic, bugbread, pushkin, quonsar's, da-da, merriam-webster's, userpage, troutfishing, ikkyu2, stuffthanks, zaelic, miguel's, vidiot, plep

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
matteo, lh, miguel, eb, quonsar, dios, konolia, y2karl, bolsheviks, stav, merriam-webster, webster's, languagehat, languagehat's, davy, astoria, stavros, matt's, indo-european, georgian

Sad to see all those historic MeFites nobody talks about any more, but what really gets me is "stuffthanks." I searched my activity and got "Sorry, no matches for stuffthanks by languagehat." Weird!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:46:32 -0800

Might be a deleted comment, I think cortex said that the report pulls deleted comments, but as far as I know those won't show up in a site search.

By: the latin mouse

the latin mouse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:52:58 -0800

What my identifying words say about me...

I'm British.
Favouriting (not favoriting)
Postcode (not zip code)
Woolly (not wooly)
Midlands (places I have lived)
Chester (places I have lived part two: electric boogaloo)

I like to obfuscate my words sometimes*
Gur (ROT13 for 'the')
Purrfr (ROT13 for 'cheese')
6f (I had to Google this one, but it was from an exceptionally silly alphabet thread where we all started posting in Hex and Octal and stuff)

I like to talk about working in theatre
ANLO (this was a discount scheme for young UK theatregoers)
IRCs (I ranted at length about how annoying these were when I managed a slush pile. It stands for International Reply Coupons. If you are mailing scripts internationally don't use these!)
SASEs (different acronym from the same rant. Self-Addressed Stamped Envelopes.)
CRB (another acronym, this time referring to the Criminal Records Background check. Probably delivered as part of a longer rant about restrictions of child performers and the daft UK child licensing laws)
Punchdrunk (I <3 Punchdrunk Theatre Company)
Playwrights and Playhouse (self explanatory)

I like to comment in threads about social equality
People-first (I've had a few conversations on MeFi about the differences between politically correct terminology in the US and UK. E.g. Whether you should say "People with disabilities" or "Disabled people")
MySociety (MySociety is a collection of UK websites mostly having to do with open democracy and social inclusion)
Transpeople (I suspect all the other people in the threads about trans issues are hyphenating this)
Alpha-male (I suspect none of the other people in the threads about gender issues are hyphenating this)
Remploy (Remploy was set up to provide employment to those disabled people who would otherwise have been unable to find work and is now being shut down in a Tory boondoggle. Grr.)

I recommend a lot of books
Radley (as in Boo Radley from To Kill A Mockingbird)
Matilda (as in Matilda Wormwood from Matilda)
Dahl (as in Roald Dahl, the author of Matilda)
Saki (the pen name of H.H Munro, the author of many wickedly dark and funny Edwardian short stories)
Fanthorpe (as in the poet U A Fanthorpe)
Maclary (as in Hairy Maclary From Donaldson's Dairy)

I spend a lot of time on AskMe
Snooze (an AskMe about people who abuse the snooze button was what made me pony up the $5 for an account here!)
BDoF (Acronym for one of the participants in a Human Relations AskMe. Apparently I was the only person too lazy to type out their pseudonym in full.)
Goldblum and NotGoldblum (from an AskMe I posted about a half-remembered movie. Neither character was actually played by Jeff Goldblum.)
Braided and braids (from AskMes about shaving one's head for charity)
Yolk (from any AskMe about eggs. The yolk is the best part, people!)
Bartending and blackcurrant (from an AskMe about the syrups which European bartenders sometimes add to beer)

I... don't believe these accurately reflect me, actually
Vicky (I've only used this in my recent comment about Facebook advertising. Which, yes. That comment got a lot of attention, but word frequency tables don't take that into account.)
25mb (I've only used this in one comment ever. Admittedly I used it multiple times in that comment...)
Booklets (Do I use this a lot? I don't feel like I do.)
Potatos (C'mon. I spelled this wrong in one comment! One!*

Thanks benito.strauss!

* I've actually tried to use ROT13 less since Jessamyn volunteered the information that sometimes people who don't know what it is freak out upon seeing it and try to report to the mods that the commenter has possibly had a stroke in the middle of commenting or something.

** Well, two now...

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:53:46 -0800

Benito.strauss, if you're not already weary of it, might you run the profile on my data? Thanks!

And cortex, thanks much for doing mine!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:05:20 -0800

languagehat: I think I've seen a couple places where words get fused, like in "stuffthanks". It's either the person typing forgetting the space, or maybe the tokenizing gets confused if you have something other than 0x20 for the space.

latin mouse: I was going to ask why you had no latin words or cheese in your list. I just thought 'purrfr' was a cat sound. As for 'potatos', and it getting in your list even though you only used it once. This probably wont' make you feel any better, but the reason it's in there is because almost no-one else used it. [In 2010, potatoes: 334 uses, potatos: 15 uses].

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:10:01 -0800

lhat, I bet it's this. The way I clean up the text involves, among other things, filtering out named entities, and I'm guessing that unlike more common literal punctuations I'm just deleting those outright instead of replacing them with whitespace.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:10:15 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does: warranting, impeachable, papa-ooma-mow-mow, executedquot, palance, en_us, mozdev, nepdg, growlnotify, vnc, ronpaul, utf-8, agregoli, userscripts, royko, 1-738, bedbugger, lc_collate, blackwell, icalendar

More common words you use much more than anyone else: wcitymike, bedbug, wherefore, quot, cron, exterminator, linked-to, cpap, bedbugs, subordinates, faithfully, apnea, usr, ical, nicky, snikt, ytmnd, daresay, esau, hominems

Mine are mostly a collection of technical terms, some of which I recognize but many of which I don't ("executedquot"?) ... but I do absolutely LOVE to PIECES the fact that "papa-ooma-mow-mow" is third on my list. "Giddyup, a oom, papa oom, papa mow mow ... "

And thank you, benito!

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:10:41 -0800

I bet things like "stuff—thanks" get processed as "stuffthanks" because the tokenizer doesn't recognize the em dash as a word.

By: grouse

grouse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:11:19 -0800

executedquot

Probably "executed"".

By: antifuse

antifuse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:20:57 -0800

I've actually tried to use ROT13 less since Jessamyn volunteered the information that sometimes people who don't know what it is freak out upon seeing it and try to report to the mods that the commenter has possibly had a stroke in the middle of commenting or something.

If for no other reason (and there are plenty of other awesome reasons), this bit of previously-unknown-to-me information has made this thread totally awesomesauce. :)

By: antifuse

antifuse — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:22:15 -0800

As an aside: I am astounded that I only ever said "awesomesauce" once in a comment here on mefi, well now 3 times I suppose after the last two comments, because I say it fairly frequently IRL.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:24:10 -0800

Ah, thanks, grouse.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:12:02 -0800

What I find really interesting is the long list of single-use words, and in particular my tendency to use onomatopoeia and also to smash things together with (or without) hyphens in a hand-flailing attempt (see?) to get my dizzy ideas across. Looking at this, it's a wonder that I ever make sense to anybody about anything.

Things like: agghhooggah, arsenic-breathed, ba-dom-ba-stabby, collage-y, creepometer, demographic-gatherers, doppelgangerous, extra-victorian, fireman-turned-hairdresser, future-evil-ikea, giganstrous, hyeagh, hyper-little-monkey, icky-skeevy-axe-murderer, internet-machine-box, jellyfished (which I am sure I used as a verb or adjective), jesii, kersquillion, lazyscaping, magizmo, monkeyvomit-green, non-washcloth-user (whut), people-shaped, plllbbbttt, punching-in-the-head-as-a-way-to-say-hi (this must be about my dog), scribble-man-with-a-hat, shits'n'giggles, shiv-wielding, skin-going-wub-wub-wub, string-related, un-bugger, wheee-dwooo-bleeping, whiz-bang-zoom, whomper-stomper, zoom-smash-bang

I have come to the depressing conclusion that I am a discarded Joss Whedon character. Perhaps from a failed collaboration with Carl Hiaasen.

I really talk like this. Please hope me. With a brick.

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:40:19 -0800

I have come to the depressing conclusion that I am a discarded Joss Whedon character.

I don't think so, for one reason: you don't have a big Reaver stake through you.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:47:37 -0800

Give me time.

By: Zarkonnen

Zarkonnen — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:53:46 -0800

Me! Do me! I love stats.

By: daisyk

daisyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:55:02 -0800

Thank you, benito.strauss!

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
poi

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
judgemental, sunflower, cloak, cambridge, presumption, geeky, gaps, op, easter, pill

Judgemental Sunflower Cloak is the name of my supergroup album with Björk and Yoko Kanno.

The rest of you are neither eating nor spinning anywhere near enough poi!

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:58:17 -0800

I am not a number, I am a man! A man made out of numbers.

*cough*

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:03:04 -0800

benito.strauss I believe it's a go. Thank you.

By: fake

fake — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:51:31 -0800

Please cloud me.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:52:32 -0800

Benito.strauss, what you are doing is very cool and I would like to subscribe to your Perl script.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:14:21 -0800

Cloud me up, sir!

By: cooker girl

cooker girl — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:35:39 -0800

Is it too late?! I hope it's not too late.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:51:28 -0800

*cough*

I am a copybot simulacrum of a man, made out of numbers. sorry.

By: cybercoitus interruptus

cybercoitus interruptus — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:07:39 -0800

Please cloud me, benito.strauss ?

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:19:08 -0800

benito, please to cloud me as well?

By: escabeche

escabeche — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:22:27 -0800

cortex, if this is still on, put me in -- and benito.strauss, too!

By: bswinburn

bswinburn — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:07:01 -0800

I'd love to be clouded as well. Thanks!

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:35:47 -0800

23303 Please hope me Cortex!

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:23:01 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
vibrams, prednisone, fitocracy, rheumatoid, dairy-free, kushiel, grain-free, restless_nomad, ativan, pullups, carmax, pushups, lunesta, butches, bodybuilding, barefoot-style, carey's, good-quality, low-stress, fivefingers

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
gluten-free, paleo, dojo, crossfit, gluten, uo, deadlifts, cpap, austin's, goodreads, siamese, cockburn, bioware, tanya, callouts, robb, ultima, recruiter, twitches, workouts

This is pretty hilariously accurate for the most part. (There are some mod-specific quirks - for example, "lunesta" and "ativan" only show up because I posted an anonymous asker's responses that included them.) And "cockburn" is a proper name, thank you very much. But otherwise... yeah, that's pretty much the short list of my life and interests.

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:28:16 -0800

Benito, please cloud me?

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:32:36 -0800

Report for user 19628

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
dreads, sonique, slinky, moir, hifana, agps, breezebrowser, magnetometer, muir, sonique2, xargs, foobar2k, canon's, parsec, mk2, winamp3, 1mm, kenken, lymph, arg-file

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
inkjet, cmd, sudoku, winamp, ddr, psd, lycos, listerine, impedance, dof, toenail, mv, equator, interpolation, ammonium, supertaster, autofocus, wart, megapixels, kilowatt

Ut oh. I might be some kind of nerd.

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:32:52 -0800

The only fun fuck in my comments is quelquefuck, which I can't take credit for. A friend of mine made it up, and it stuck.

By: rtha

rtha — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:34:27 -0800

quelquefuck

Fantastic. Please tell your friend that a random person on the internet is going to adopt it as well.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:39:17 -0800

Yo, benito! Can you cloud me?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:40:55 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
anonyme, shoudl, abotu, thigns, deleteworthy, wiht, spendy, holidaytime, restless_nomad, non-answers, sitewide, untagged

[please note, I have the ability to correct my own typos]

Words you use much more than anyone else:
peopel, chatfilter, deletions, newsfilter, flagging, irritable, mathowie, landlady, konolia, googleable, pb, chitchat, timeout, chatty, callouts

No one else has a landlady?

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:45:06 -0800

So... nobody talks about me but me and Jessamyn? I can't decide if that's good or bad.

By: box

box — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:08:55 -0800

I am not surprised that 'spendy' is on Jess' list, but a little surprised that 'fighty' isn't.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:12:08 -0800

Damn, that was quick!

Report for user 64035

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
trids, instr, x360, lewisville, julee, dma, 2nding, polydor, altima, nasher, rubydoom, w580i, now-wife, dvi, antennaweb, grapher, gantz, preordered, kimbell, slyme

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
vg, ensign, doodad, elektra, cruise's, eq, vga, love's, tetsuo, recieved, chihuahua, thyme, 20000, percieved, mazda, rca, eraserhead, ddr, aftertaste, antennas

Apparently I speak a lot of gobbledegook. At least the "common" list has a sort of poetry to it.

By: gingerest

gingerest — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:14:52 -0800

RN: Zarq talks about you. I don't know what it means, except that your username is long and abbreviates to a common acronym.

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:15:13 -0800

benito.strauss wrote (thanks benito!):

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
h0, vst, 1e-6, h5n1, scipy, bayes, eigenfactor, foldit, gwas, clothianidin, burford, metabolomics, daw, summonses, proteome, xiu, cubase, ndseg, pull-ups, vergennes

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
plos, voxels, body-person, leptin, msc, p1, loci, epigenetics, lm, p-value, mitochondria, heritability, csv, h1, bioinformatics, knytt, earplugs, krebs, tiling, ianad

I don't know whether to be happy or anguished that all of this is from when I'm allegedly taking a break from work. Also I guess nobody else hyphenates pull-ups.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:16:27 -0800

I think the rest of us has been so thoroughly infected with "fighty" that it's not an unusual word here anymore.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:17:39 -0800

I, too, would like to participate in the encloudening.

By: box

box — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:22:15 -0800

Report for user 17573

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
bomberman, iriver, rockbox, zuh, in-ear, mdr-v6, ohhla, laswell, sennheiser, afrobeat, brotzmann, cowon, kuti, dipset, sonys, fela, emcee, tecmo, carhartt, over-the-ear

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
winehouse, chatfilter, rakim, emcees, leatherman, gameboy, 4wd, wu-tang, shmups, cdex, earphones, instrumentals, win2k, headphone, secondhand, shure, n64, gamecube, aftermarket, trackball

I like portable audio, hip-hop, video games and complaining about chatfilter. Trying to work on that last one. No idea what Winehouse is doing on there, but I know what 'zuh' is.

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:26:10 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
cranny, crawfish, croce, abita, oat, halfling, tchoupitoulas, squirtle, amarula, candied, candide, bananagrams

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
po-boy, fielder, beignets, marquez, oreos, centipedes, zucchini, ender's, jasmine, fast-paced, pantyhose, aah, uptown, chandler, caramel, rogues, slacks, peppermint, nthing, pus

Ok, so I like to eat. I live in New Orleans. I play D&D. But: chandler, slacks, pus, jasmine, and fielder? Weird. I don't remember talking about Jim Croce on this site before. I don't like Candide, so I'm surprised I've said it more than once. And cranny? When have I ever said cranny?

This is so much fun. Thanks, cortex and benito, for your hard work.

By: barnacles

barnacles — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:27:50 -0800

Report for user 32016

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
polynesia, kava, palau, pago, aral, elemenstor, nisp, mni, yoyo, micronesia, tepe, construx, elbot, darya, threadshitters, ava, yoda's, startropics, babeldaob, robcorr

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
samoa, polynesian, anti-missile, barnacles, cbd, canberra, archaeology, yee, fitzpatrick, upending, berger, scrivener, schell, samoan, divabat, polynesians, fiji, fieldwork, schaefer, sfo

Among many things that make a lot of sense to me as to why they're in there, I rather like that "anti-missile" slipped in. I wasn't aware that anti-missile was a passion of mine, but I'm going to adjust my expectations accordingly! Maybe that's related to "threadshitters", who knows ...

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:30:59 -0800

OK on balance I have decided to be happy about it because the alternative is too awful to contemplate. So, FUCK YEAH BIOINFORMATICS STAR, IM IN UR BASE ALIGNING UR PARALOGS AND REJECTING THE SHIT OUT OF UR H0

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:31:54 -0800

Seriously though, benito, these are both brilliant and terrifying.

By: hydrobatidae

hydrobatidae — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:45:08 -0800

Is it too late to get my data?

By: EvaDestruction

EvaDestruction — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:51:42 -0800

My set is an interesting mix of things and people I am a big fan of, and those that I am not. (Thankfully, mostly the former.) I apparently will not shut up about places I have lived, places I have eaten, or things to wear. I am surprised that "introvert" and "introversion" aren't more popular words around these parts.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
hsv-1, wrens, untucked, cross-stitch, rothko, hulk-marg, zennie, doughty, fingerless, giffords, goldfrapp, pro-mubarak, caregiving, gotye, suffragettes, bellydance, tahrir, mckinley's, firewater's, bab, meadowlands, zoomorphic's, snuggly, lindt, tomboys, gotye's, coulson's

Words you use much more than anyone else:
brewer's, lira, roiphe's, button-down, kristof, baltimore's, outbreaks, slats, macedonia, temping, dupont, granville, isabel, dap, headdesk, earring, racialized, necklaces, hard-headed, essentialism, timestamp, introversion, shawl, moulin, snug, coed, winehouse, lanterns, fabrics, mussels, mercifully, hampden, menswear, shortbread, faved, fells, vases, grieving, stitches, mckinley, knits, hairstyle, aj, outbreak, alexandria, patter, go-go, awwwww, balkans, introvert, vernon, layering, seams, earrings, absinthe, flirting, stubble, stitch, bookmarking, decorating, seam

Thanks again, benito.strauss!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:52:25 -0800

Me next, me next please!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:03:55 -0800

The one unexpected thing I've noticed is that the distinctive words are for the most part nouns (pace grotendous). People, let's get some spicier adjectives in here!

By: Saydur

Saydur — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:26:29 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
f2p, bigname, runescape, xylitol, radeon, saydur, sooners, micro-transaction, antihistamine, telemarketer, dextromethorphan, pawned, enso, phlegm, money-for-power, swtor, decongestant, step-mom, spenders, santorum's

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
amex, geostationary, debeers, nyquil, cheetah, nissan, usain, pseudoephedrine, motorbike, mmos, painkillers, upsides, oxycontin, clamor, p2p, pawn, telemarketers, bitters, shareware, palpitations

So my fascination with the MMO industry shows, particularly given that I use the more general MMO as opposed to making the mistake of referring to the entire genre as MMORPGs. Somewhere along the line I spent time talking about myself in the third person. Virtually nobody else talks about me. I have a terrible habit of hyphenating anything I feel like because-I-can.

I have used cheetah seven times prior to this post, clamor four times, and palpitations four times. Considering the userbase, I am surprised these words are not used more often. The fact that I can manage to refer to any form of cat more often than most people within an Internet community astounds me. I use the AMEX abbreviation 19 times, something that doesn't surprise me given that most people just say American Express in full. Not many people care about xylitol. Sifting through my single instances of a word leads to some highly amusing results such as how I talk about Spongebob as often as I do about guacamole, urination, and the Cheetahmen, a storied and truly terrible video game not to be confused with actual cheetahs. I fear I will not be the last person on the Internet to refer to all four of the previously mentioned words in the same sentence. I fear more than I was not the first. I will not indulge myself in such research.

I use an average of 131.37 words per comment, yet I only comment 0.3 times/day. The former statistic may induce gratitude for the latter.

Thanks cortex and benito.strauss for the data. I will endeavor to use ostentatious and/or capsaicin-laden words in anticipatory preparation for next time period's geekout.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:54:21 -0800

benito, I am trying with my Whedon Words. Unfortunately, they are all void-shouty and lost. Like tears in the rain. Or a leaf on the wind.

Urk.

By: cybercoitus interruptus

cybercoitus interruptus — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:18:34 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
esters [21 times], lysine [15], harding's, arginine [10], zygotes [9], 2nding, tierney, slutwalk [8], lepine, roughy [6], lgbts, intermarry [6], tcoyf, racialicious, antiracist [6], valancy, lysine-arginine, afr-am, bonito [5], scythe [5]

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
staph [11], konolia, deep-sea, mucous [7], harding, billings, ime, aureus, chiding [5], xxxx, cheep, tiller's, lobstermitten, staphylococcus, outbursts [7], babcock, assertiveness [5], whiteness [36], post-racial [6], mrsa [11]

Esters and [orange] roughy, whiteness, and intermarry are high because they're from academic papers that I quoted long blockquotes from. One long blockquote-comment each. Other than that, yep, I pipe up regularly on feminist and race issues. And some personal medical history.

I am surprised that, apparently, few other people use "outbursts". And "assertiveness"!

Thanks, cortex and benito.strauss. Reading about everybody's results is fascinating.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:22:57 -0800

Don't worry, cmyk. You've always got "cantankerous".

By: cybercoitus interruptus

cybercoitus interruptus — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:25:36 -0800

Actually, two of the five instances of "assertiveness" in my comments were just me quoting other Mefites.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:05:50 -0800

I'm going to try to figure how to do this on my own later, but for now, do both of you mind quantifying and clouding me up?

By: Homeboy Trouble

Homeboy Trouble — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:10:47 -0800

I would be ever so grateful for an encloudening, please, benito.strauss. Thanks!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:33:48 -0800

I think there's a few peopel (all the cool kids are spelling it that way now) requesting encloudment that hadn't been cortexified yet when I ran the script. It's easiest for me if you re-post in here re-requesting entwolkenung once your cortex file is in place. Thanks.

/I'm working on making my next year's file more interesting.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:08:30 -0800

I kinda missed the middle of this thread, so I'm not quite sure what I'm getting myself into by asking this, but whatever it is you're doing with data for others benito.strauss, would you mind running my data through it too? Thanks!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:21:13 -0800

benito.strauss, if you're still doing this I'd love to see the brundlecloud.

By: usonian

usonian — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:34:11 -0800

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:

clawhammer, lodges, kiwanis, scruggs, chemex, brayer, medeski, filemaker, shriners, 3-finger, laminate, sufferbus, frailing, open-back, gabrels, north-central, brubeck, docent, mandolins, new_path

More common words you use much more than anyone else:

freemasonry, mandolin, elks, old-time, usonian, fraternal, masonic, banjos, masons, banjo, lodge, cryin, freemason, grange, freemasons, resonator, stringed, cms, drupal, minstrel

Banjos, Chemex coffee makers and fraternal organizations, I guess that does just about cover the bulk of my (hopefully) useful contributions to Ask MeFi.

By: thinkpiece

thinkpiece — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:59:11 -0800

I wouldn't dream of posting my benito-words. I'm as shallow as spit.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:23:47 -0800

I'm proud to say that "parasauralophus" is one of my words.

By: kristi

kristi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:30:59 -0800

Me too please! I would like to be numerified.

Thank you!

By: desuetude

desuetude — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:17:28 -0800

Where have I been? Me too me too.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:41:00 -0800

NOTICE: It looks like the requests have pretty much ended. I'm going to stop checking this thread, but I'll keep the data and scripts on my computer. If you want me to generate your cloud, just get cortex to create your file, and then send me a memail. It's very easy to do, so don't hesitate to ask.

It's been a lot of fun, and really interesting to see different people's clouds. And if you didn't like your words, remember, they're not the things that are most important to you, they're just the things that most distinguish you from other MeFites. If you made just one comment about snickerdoodles, and you used the word "snickerdoodles" five times in that comment, it's going to show up in your list. Hey, at least you don't have the problem McGregor has.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:51:50 -0800

Oh, yeah, two last things.

Firstly, since I had the script, I took cortex's idea and compared MeFi as a whole against that COCA corpus of contemporary American words. Here's is MeFi's word cloud, along with some more detailed stats. (I hope it's not too long.) The "rel_PPM" is just the PPM_MeFi / PPM_COCA. So, for example, we are more than 500 times more likely to use "douchebags" in our writing than in the publications in the corpus.

Report for user MetaFilter

Words MetaFilter uses heavily that (practically) no other contemporary American does:
metafilter, mefi, fpp, 3d, delmoi, mefites, upthread, fwiw, 3rd, 20th, 4chan, mp3, didnt, koeselitz, askme, 2nd, artw, iirc, doesnt, metatalk, zarq, html5, ironmouth, 19th, minecraft, 4th, teabaggers, 21st, 1st, amirite, grar, mefite, hes, grumblebee, blazecock, hippybear, malor, co2

Commonly used words that Metafilter uses much more than any other contemporary American:
nsfw, wanna, gonna, dunno, gizmodo, dont, gotta, wtf, imho, btw, fanfic, beese, reddit, gpl, adipocere, cannot, rekers, full-on, assange, adblock, douchebags, ggw, dadt, osx, jessamyn, meh, c'mon, paywall, repubs, stfu, bsg, gompa, snark, astroturfing, ghibli, banksy, autotune, aphex, technica, webkit, threeway, steampunk, mashups, nutjobs, emergents, huffpo, hahaha, spot-on, aint, pinboard



MetaFilter words not found in COCA corpus: 3624

countPPMword

  8180217.257392metafilter

  361896.092573mefi

  324786.238967fpp

  143138.0067643d

  109829.162423delmoi

  100626.718941mefites

   85722.761563upthread

   85122.602205fwiw

   76820.3977603rd

   76720.37120020th

   74519.7868904chan

   73619.547853mp3

   72019.122900didnt

   71018.857304koeselitz

   69718.512030askme

   67617.9542782nd

   65517.396527artw

   65517.396527iirc

   59615.829512doesnt

   57915.377999metatalk

   57615.298320zarq

   55514.740569html5

   55214.660890ironmouth

   54614.50153319th

   54114.368735minecraft

   51313.6250664th

   49713.200113teabaggers

   48812.96107721st

   46012.2174081st

   44711.872134amirite

   44711.872134grar

   44511.819015mefite

   44011.686217hes

   43111.447180grumblebee

   41811.101906blazecock

   40710.809750hippybear

   40010.623833malor

   38310.172320co2



MetaFilter words found in COCA corpus



countrel_PPMword

   7642841.961760nsfw

   8861977.471389wanna

  37041797.171759gonna

  15271549.147640dunno

   6281401.638862gizmodo

  21801216.390159dont

  16061120.138985gotta

  17231068.216305wtf

   5581037.837547imho

  1758934.213121btw

   320892.763794fanfic

   524835.371460beese

   719729.428391reddit

   320714.210885gpl

   176654.692761adipocere

  5654637.333889cannot

   164610.054619rekers

   162602.614928full-on

  2363573.260864assange

   199555.187485adblock

   245546.817709douchebags

   144535.657714ggw

   796522.529236dadt

   230513.339074osx

   307489.425645jessamyn

  1087449.274921meh

   563448.773027c'mon

   150418.483029paywall

   110409.182976repubs

   140390.584160stfu

   170379.424533bsg

   101375.704369gompa

  1286350.028579snark

    94349.665452astroturfing

    87323.626535ghibli

   173321.766838banksy

   141314.699171autotune

    84312.467000aphex

    81301.307464technica

    78290.147928webkit

   102284.568459threeway

   381283.452366steampunk

   125278.988627mashups

    99276.198799nutjobs

    99276.198799emergents

   122272.292900huffpo

   146271.548892hahaha

   144267.829044spot-on

   116258.901446aint

    68252.949476pinboard

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:04:23 -0800

Secondly, Greg Nog wins.

I know it's not a competition, and all of the clouds were pretty interesting. What I liked most about generating them was discovering some biologists and physicist we've got who I didn't know about before. I'll be following them more closely, hoping to catch some cool explanations that I might have otherwise missed.

And sure, Greg benefited from getting his cloud before there was the 20 word limit. But for sheer recipes + Star Trek + Ruffalo + I-have-no-idea-what-that-word-even-relates-to, Greg Nog wins. Behold!

Words Greg Nog uses heavily that (practically) no one else does:
tbsp, jonson, tempeh, caliban, hodor, teaspoons, pbo, yiayia, data's, clynelish, peaty, p90x, i'm'a, gangbang, seamen, tomine, miracleman, soyjoy, ortolan, ladyfriend, j'ai, severio, casp, manch, dalwhinnie, gools, ardbeg, votre, yiayia's, psmith, furrows, cela, turisas, cufflinks, pc5, xiu, increasemathr, curries, druthers, chalupa, zander, distilleries, retsina, jerremy, absurdism, worf's, plot-point, hampshirite, autobio, bum-bum, hampshirites, finntroll, sakura, 10217, jaundice, caramelized, cookoff, goodwifeazz, risers, alginate, cool-ass, ruffalo, bacon-grease, repping, fever-dream, marantz, balls-to-the-wall, str8, protomen, holmgard, miso, lopez-alt's, medeival, kenji, golden-brown, sophocles, picard's, conrad's, smuttynose, cragganmore, courtier's, smirks, hullaballoo, greek-style, whiskies, weakerthans, laforge, jamais, terriers, burkert, silly-bandz, politically-righteous, hippocampus, mtrhead, coetzee, kara, bacon-fat, sautee, brooklyn's, skycap, high-protein, uus, thumbtack, mix-cd, hansel, litterbox, ma-ti, uef, darmok, rx-ft500, bovril, kiefer, harpold, werckmeister, chartreuse, 15-oz, dawdle, ouzo, lamora, ellrod, morlock, cloon, tamburlaine, cette, surface-level, french-cuff, winstons, lustrous

Words Greg Nog uses much more than anyone else:
tsp, cloves, confit, vous, coon, gurgeh, worf, vo, ds9, riker's, apfelwein, nh, romulan, ferengi, cheesecloth, riker, uu, bite-sized, dhalgren, tussles, sandpaper, centaur, breading, comme, acetone, romulans, darkseid, tartan, greenpoint, troi, starfleet, artie, deep-fry, geordi, parakeet, upenn, oregano, edamame, saucepan, cayenne, bitchin, peachy, marinade, hermes, woolf, frist, parsley, tablespoon, spaniard, manhunter, teaspoon, toffee, simmer, galbraith, nous, mead, liqueur, laphroaig, splotches, jul

By: taz

taz — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:40:39 -0800

Damnit you guys doing fun things while I'm asleep! Add me to your list, cortex.

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:48:25 -0800

I would like to be on said list as well, please...

By: willF

willF — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:21:11 -0800

Please (and thank you).

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:01:18 -0800

I'll get back in and do another run for the stragglers tomorrow morning; the weekend has been slackworthy.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:07:09 -0800

If you haven't run the last batch yet, I'd be interested in seeing mine.

By: Tin Man

Tin Man — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:34:46 -0800

I would love to see mine as well.

By: Phire

Phire — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:24:25 -0800

Can I put my name down as well?

By: zombieflanders

zombieflanders — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:59:53 -0800

I'd also like to jump on this bandwagon.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:31:01 -0800

benito, I'd be curious to see a word-avoidance cloud: are there words that are common in the Metafilter corpus, or in the COCA, that I avoid? That might take some careful thought to put in a statistically interesting way ... I'm not interested in rare words that I avoid. But it'd be amusing to learn that, say, everyone spends their time talking about pink elephants and I've never noticed.

don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it argh

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:39:17 -0800

Me, too.

By: schmod

schmod — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:34:06 -0800

Me!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:00:02 -0800

Straggler edition! Here's everybody new starting from Zarkonnen. Tables here.

user 24905:10665 words,2795 unique, in200 comments.

user 57855:154822 words,11566 unique, in1640 comments.

user 21049:186817 words,15799 unique, in2554 comments.

user 23303:274589 words,23278 unique, in5767 comments.

user 60594:40778 words,6057 unique, in376 comments.

user 61170:208565 words,18982 unique, in6011 comments.

user 48758:439273 words,24158 unique, in5569 comments.

user 66440:94029 words,9512 unique, in687 comments.

user 21365:712839 words,33865 unique, in8621 comments.

user 14421:659953 words,32992 unique, in7463 comments.

user 69120:23075 words,4022 unique, in317 comments.

user 15382:2356 words,967 unique, in78 comments.

user 19227:64513 words,8916 unique, in956 comments.

user 3398:42681 words,5853 unique, in635 comments.

user 40688:167988 words,14448 unique, in2388 comments.

user 100776:121746 words,11891 unique, in1233 comments.

user 33546:81185 words,9075 unique, in1095 comments.

user 49429:416879 words,26283 unique, in4606 comments.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:25:15 -0800

My cloud:

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
wis, vam, 1-x, barthelme [10], riemann, poincare, gab, waukesha, gottman, cosma, valency, not-p, baldy, landsburg's, set-free, cochon, jap, zopilote, churrascaria, cognitive-behavioral

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
orioles [35], chowhound, uw, sqrt, madcaptenor, teardrop, bangles, japs, dx, medalist, mika, richman, genoways, wi, zeta, forester, cloves, nxivm, first-rate, lethem

So yeah: I live in Wisconsin, I do math, and I like restaurants, baseball, experimental fiction, and new wave more than most people do. Sounds about right.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:06:35 -0800

My pink elephants are awesome. Quoth benito:

I got curious about that too (IvanF also asked about it as well). So I restricted your word list to those that were in the top 10% most frequently used on the site as a whole, then sorted those by relative frequency of use. Taking the top and bottom 20 for you yielded this:

Report for user 69606

Most and least common user words among top 10% site words
Ranked by PPM(user) / PPM(site)

countrel_PPMword
4830.434429quantum
3023.776898temperature
3521.304100atmosphere
5919.746679physics
2318.850768radiation
2918.805365mechanics
3917.750888electric
1717.131963density
2516.421455experiments
5116.224626experiment
2916.086241interaction
2615.062725stable
1714.642980vacuum
1814.569673transition
1514.416308estimate
1814.266139liquid
1514.003572chemistry
5413.896216moon
2713.354219ordinary
12913.281601energy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
60.192650wasn't
30.185049she's
30.179684society
70.177979saying
30.175764stupid
50.175556shit
50.173290american
30.169625although
30.168809huge
30.167263city
30.161351games
70.155067man
80.154040love
50.143153music
30.132593internet
30.127507hell
30.113027war
30.111355men
30.094706government
40.093592yeah

Apparently, we are all saying "Hell yeah, I love the stupid shit american government.", and you are not. I suspect you may be Canadian.

True story: I am a professional Canadian.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:26:44 -0800

OH MY GOD I WANT THIS TOO

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:08:23 -0800

benito.strauss emailed my (two: EB and IF) versions of that new report to me, too, but I didn't post it here because I didn't want to encourage people to ask him to do more work. I won't speak for him, of course — if he wants to do so, that's cool. But he's been extremely generous with his time and effort in generating the standard report from cortex's data for so many of us.

This other report is more meaningful for me because especially with regard to my EB data, where I frequently quoted people and included attributions, 80% of my words were people's usernames. Which was interesting in that limited respect, but not what I was hoping for and not like many of the results posted above. That's why I didn't post mine. My IF results aren't quite so skewed in this manner, but are still not very interesting. But this new report is (to me):

Ivan Fyodorovich

Frequent

regard, numerous, sexism, inclined, partly, culturally, distinct, strongly, conventional, deeply, portion, bigotry, askme, nevertheless, feminism, meta, sexist, orientation, privileged, and arguably.

Rare

budget, travel, tax, island, afghanistan, bill, flash, morning, john, train, ipad, insurance, etc, team, and gonna.

Ethereal Bligh

Frequent

matt, meta, nevertheless, hypocrisy, askme, regard, mefi, belt, strongly, portion, bigotry, utility, greatly, wheels, assertion, inclined, evolutionary, posts, context, and judgment.

Rare

glenn, elected, monster, bp, 3d, competition, plant, cameras, clothes, dig, robot, budget, awesome, apple, bike, funding, tea, iphone, facebook, and obama.

In both cases, some of the rarely used words are more an artifact of the fact that the MetaFilter corpus spans its entire history but, because of increases in membership and posting, must be biased toward the present; while, in contrast, as EB my activity is limited to 2004-2007 and as IF to the last year. That, I think, explains most (but not all) of why afghanistan appears in the rare IF list and obama appears in the rare EB list. Possibly also glenn and facebook in the latter list, as well.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:15:18 -0800

The truth is, there's a great clustering (or even biclustering) problem here -- given the table of the wordlists, you could make a map of users and a map of words, where users are close to each other if their patterns of word usage are similar, and words are similar if they are popular (respectively unpopular) with similar sets of users.

Then you can go deeper: are users more likely to favorite other users who are nearby in word-usage-space....?

By: escabeche

escabeche — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:29:02 -0800

I learn from benito that I use the word "terrific" almost 9 times as frequently as does MeFi overall.

Things I have said were "terrific" on MeFi:

"A Pail of Air," by Fritz Lieber
Chinese punk band The Angry Jerks
Matthew Sweet
Mt. Rushmore
"The Running Man," by Stephen King
Pecorino Toscano with honey
the mathematical research of Vladimir Berkovich
DIG!, a documentary about the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre
vegetarian dinner at the Peachtree soul food restaurant in Kansas City
the Subway Museum in Brooklyn
applying to graduate school in a big math department
China Village in Albany, CA
Davis and Maclagan's expository paper about the card game Set
Lorrie Moore's short story "People Like That Are The Only People Here"
Glacier Bay Cruiselines
"Grace Kelly," by Mika

I stand by these judgments!

By: desuetude

desuetude — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:24:21 -0800

Wait wait i should have been more explicit, I want a pretty snowflake cloud too. (I feel like i say explicit more than most people, for example.)

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:43:18 -0800

God, this is a little embarrassing.

Words iamkimiam uses heavily that (practically) no one else does:
meta, marked, languages, favorites, anyways, speakers, ex, somebody, speaker, askme, boundaries, spelling, variation, suggestions, language, phrases, metaphor, styles, op, framing

More common words iamkimiam uses much more than anyone else:
anyone, gaga, corporations, iraq, cops, assange, laws, dr, flash, billion, afghanistan, drug, universe, citizens, war, ads, law, china, religious

I clearly like to talk about languages and relationships. I might be skewing my own research data here. Also, I might be more political than I realized. (To be honest, the second category doesn't sound like me at all...but hey, I'm full of surprises. Anyways...)

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:44:09 -0800

Nice try, iamkimiam. Mentioning politics hoping to divert our attention from "gaga". You talk about Lady Gaga ...... more than the average MeFite.

By: acridrabbit

acridrabbit — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:08:18 -0800

I would like this, too.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:24:58 -0800

Please send me my words too!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:53:22 -0800

Yeah, with my whole two mentions of Lady Gaga. But I guess that's two times more than most everybody else, so perhaps I should DTMFGG and go get some therapy (it may be wise, considering how obsessed I am with her song 'Teeth').

By: gilrain

gilrain — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:33:13 -0800

I'd like to see my data as well, if I'm not too late.

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:49:14 -0800

Things I have said were "terrific" on MeFi:
...
"Grace Kelly," by Mika

I've been listening to this song all week, thanks to this comment.

By: Phire

Phire — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:25:21 -0800

user 40688: 127424 words, 12363 unique, in 1927 comments. (Jul 2006 to Jul 2011)
user 40688: 167988 words, 14448 unique, in 2388 comments. (Jul 2006 to Jul 2012)

Wow, 40,000 words in the last year alone, compared to about 25,000 words a year for the first 5. Though there were 461 comments in the last year, at about 88 words per comment, compared to 385 comments per year for 2006-2011, at about 66 words per comment. I knew I was getting more verbose.

(This comment has 103 words.)

benito.strauss, any chance of running (yet) another word cloud thingie for this latecomer?

By: mostlymartha

mostlymartha — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:34:22 -0800

Oooh, fascinating! I can haz?

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:33:31 -0800

Hello, data wankers and late-birds.

It's become clear that the current word cloud suffers from McGregor's Dilemma, or the Regrettable Tattoo phenomenon. (If one drunken night you get a tattoo that you immediately regret, it'll be the first thing people notice about you, and a good way to pick you out of a crowd, but it actually says very little about you.)

So, since it's too hot to go outside, I thought I'd adapt the script to look just at words that are the most commonly used on the site, and pick a user's high-interest and low-interest words from there. It also computes the overlap between the user's and the site's top-ranked words. ('Top ranked' is the top 5000 words, the figure used by professional linguists — i.e. iamkimiam mentioned it.)

I'll send out these new reports to those who have asked for them, but they'll still have the old-style word cloud in the second half (along with more details about those words). I am using a more complete site corpus, so things might be a little different if you have a previous word cloud; this one should be more accurate.

If you're a hard-core data wanker, feel free to ask me to re-run your report. I doubt there are many left following this thread so there won't be too many to do.

I think the most fun we could have with this is if people try to make a sentence using as many words as possible from their low-interest word list.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:45:05 -0800

Oh, for the curious I'll paste in my (full) report below so you can see what's in there. Please forgive the length.

My sentence made from my low-interest words, the sentence I am extremely unlikely to say, goes something like:

Be reasonable, baby. The awesome fire will destroy the expensive female oil game. The poor industry simply will not suspect us, nor will we have to go to court.

Report for user 126778

Most and least common user words among top 5000 site words

High interest words
boston, y, functions, stats, socialism, folk, russian, x, mefi, presidential, mccain, tendency, function, 2012, efficiency, clock, math, curious, sincerely, ring

Low interest words
games, simply, kill, oil, however, couple, several, industry, awesome, fire, suspect, nor, entirely, ten, poor, court, reasonable, baby, female, expensive

Percent overlap of user and site top ranked words: 59.6%





Details: ranked by PPM(user) / PPM(site)



user_countrel_PPMuser_ranksite_rankword

   5316.251882  254 2937boston

   5412.785100  253 2377y

   208.921159  578 3945functions

   137.670308  923 4912stats

   137.224360  920 4672socialism

   176.326183  680 3400folk

   226.092679  536 2724russian

   806.021030  172  835x

   585.790367  230 1106mefi

   105.651072 1149 4733presidential

   105.613145 1138 4711mccain

   115.592672 1079 4380tendency

   305.514453  410 1905function

   105.318656 1092 45252012

    95.310214 1221 4906efficiency

   115.219827 1031 4142clock

   375.102270  348 1500math

   395.080683  333 1419curious

    94.993186 1291 4664sincerely

   164.792028  747 2886ring

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    30.269070 3134  999expensive

    30.268494 3152  996female

    30.260548 2908  964baby

    30.260075 3512  963reasonable

    40.258584 2400  714court

    60.257804 1846  492poor

    30.244669 3670  895ten

    40.237813 2456  664entirely

    30.236093 3401  870nor

    30.232591 3655  859suspect

    30.212094 3159  792fire

    70.211756 1487  352awesome

    30.209965 3273  782industry

    40.202478 2757  574several

    50.183896 2008  423couple

    50.171666 2083  397however

    30.170656 3412  635oil

    30.167775 3306  620kill

    40.134328 2763  391simply

    30.118241 3191  450games

-----------------------------------------------
[This is the old-style cloud. As the cloud is now generated against an almost
[complete site list, the items in the first section ('practically no one else')
[are probably pretty un-important.
[The second section ('more common words') is more meaningful.

[The cloud also consists of the words that are the most distinctive for the user,
[not necessarily what the user spends a lot of time on (McGregor's Dilemma).

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
benitostrauss, db8, crucanti, nomogram, chon, hameau, mapmaker, hapax, legomenon, surjective, physicsmatt, kristine, fraid, haglund, nomograms, cahokia, pide, pngview, pynomo, zaltzman

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
memri, keepon, 1-d, mansfield, wunderground, ubuweb, z2, meany, nomyte, re-creating, hilbert, brecht, knotted, benito, fenway, vassal, chick-fil-a, fela, haskell, baptism

Details:



Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:

countPPMword

     762.197343benitostrauss

     653.312009db8

     435.541339crucanti

     435.541339nomogram

     435.541339chon

     435.541339hameau

     435.541339mapmaker

     435.541339hapax

     435.541339legomenon

     326.656004surjective

     326.656004physicsmatt

     326.656004kristine

     326.656004fraid

     326.656004haglund

     326.656004nomograms

     326.656004cahokia

     326.656004pide

     326.656004pngview

     326.656004pynomo

     326.656004zaltzman



More common words you use much more than anyone else:

countrel_PPMword

    11735.995598memri

     5557.572423keepon

     6401.4521441-d

     3334.543454mansfield

     3334.543454wunderground

     3250.907590ubuweb

     3250.907590z2

     6223.028969meany

     4223.028969nomyte

     3200.726072re-creating

     3200.726072hilbert

     3200.726072brecht

     7195.150348knotted

     9188.180693benito

    12167.271727fenway

     4167.271727vassal

     4167.271727chick-fil-a

     3167.271727fela

     9158.467952haskell

    18158.467952baptism

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:03:49 -0800

phire, your memail is disabled. I can't send you your cloud.

By: Phire

Phire — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:40:21 -0800

Sorry! I've re-enabled it, but you can also send it to my email (in my profile). Sorry for the trouble, and thanks to restless_nomad for giving me a heads up about this.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:59:29 -0800

Stragglers two, data boogaloo:

user 43691:96305 words,9703 unique, in739 comments.

user 105027:65611 words,9069 unique, in929 comments.

user 1461:30622 words,5578 unique, in511 comments.

benito, I'd love a report as well.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:25:08 -0800

I too would like a New Improved report please thank you!

By: likeso

likeso — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:29:24 -0800

And so would I! Please and thank you, benito.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:42:23 -0800

High interest words

metatalk, askme, matt, deleted, mods, threads, delete, posts, it'd, favorites, problematic, folks, mefi, flag, meta, removed, explicit, anonymous, grey, mefites

No surprises there, other than "it'd", which is apparently not a contraction that most folks use so much? Huh. Also, nice to see that my self-conscious use of grey-with-an-e is something I should in fact feel self-conscious about.

Low interest words

congress, democrats, israel, africa, republican, terrorists, schools, republicans, teachers, courts, poverty, iran, india, voters, wikileaks, climate, korea, leadership, assange, civilization

At least half of these are keywords for Thread On The Blue I Don't Want To Read, so that doesn't shock me. I'll be tempted to point at this again next time someone gets on my nuts about my blatant political biases, though; I don't even like discussing this shit most of the time. (Nothing personal, teachers and civilization and India. I just don't have a ton to say about you.)

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:07:36 -0800

Oh, I would love a rerun too, that's an interesting split.

Also, nice to see that my self-conscious use of grey-with-an-e is something I should in fact feel self-conscious about.

"Grey" and "gray" are two different colors. Because 'e' is white and 'a' is black, "grey" is the lighter one. I use them in a way that must appear to be interchangeable to everyone else, but is very much not in my own weird synaesthetic brain.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:14:56 -0800

Report me, benito.strauss!

By: rtha

rtha — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:15:44 -0800

Oh, me too, please!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:32:26 -0800

Hmm*, I'm seeing a lot of site-specific words in the people getting second reports (like meta, metafilter, askme, etc.). I guess it make sense, that people interested in data on the site would be talking about the site. But my brain was saying "wait a minute, how can everybody use these words more than averge?"

* a word I use a lot more than others do, apparently

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:37:57 -0800

Most and least common user words among top 5000 site words

High interest words
op, metatalk, deleted, delete, meta, askme, mods, y'all, handy, ton, manager, lesbian, forums, stress, sleep, definitely, inclined, relationship, drama, conversations

Low interest words
government, apple, children, vote, society, court, america, states, okay, u, political, 000, truth, christian, schools, mr, youtube, dollars, economic, taxes

Percent overlap of user and site top ranked words: 67.3%

That looks like it matches my status as a mod better than the previous set - lots of meta-conversation. Also I stay the hell out of political threads. And SLYTs, apparently.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:13:04 -0800

Most and least common user words among top 5000 site words

High interest words
metatalk, favorites, askme, poetry, literature, incidentally, literary, meta, mefites, y'know, posts, prize, novel, translation, who've, would've, alright, essay, editors, hop

Low interest words
cost, software, bike, iphone, property, california, traffic, privacy, religious, os, regardless, device, ipad, insurance, browser, it'd, torture, abortion, congress, cops

Percent overlap of user and site top ranked words: 74.8%

Interestingly, the lobster and lederhosen words completely disappeared from this version.

This feels like a much more accurate accounting of my interests than the other one.

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:41:23 -0800

Oooh, I'd love to see mine too if you're still doing this.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:26:32 -0800

High interest words
greek, russian, matt, latin, meta, metatalk, askme, languages, poster, jazz, grammar, spelling, mefi, usage, poetry, russia, soviet, english, translation, deleted

Low interest words
facebook, twitter, revenue, hardware, palin, healthcare, corporations, 2010, programming, software, microsoft, digital, funding, carbon, developers, regulation, lab, engine, app, devices

I stand by all of that. (I just hope this comment doesn't drive Ms. P*lin out of my "Low interest words" list.)

By: griphus

griphus — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 08:54:16 -0800

oh, hey, can I please get one of these lists?

By: griphus

griphus — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:22:22 -0800

High interest words
brooklyn, russian, nyc, girlfriend, miserable, therapy, dating, hang, considering, mods, apartment, dates, retail, advice, manhattan, punk, boyfriend, genuinely, op, t-shirt

Low interest words
democrats, various, beliefs, republicans, texas, largely, canadian, fairly, iraq, humans, mainstream, appeal, btw, catholic, uk, victims, notion, frankly, extremely, capital

...this is painting sort of an odd picture.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:33:48 -0800

If you're not busy, I'd like a list like this. Thank you <3

By: rtha

rtha — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:45:30 -0800

High interest words
francisco, san, lesbian, askme, meta, mods, birds, sf, therapy, mefites, bay, partner, deleted, cats, pie, cheese, bird, preview, op, married

Low interest words
gaga, 3d, hollywood, bp, interface, tries, elements, consumers, korea, excited, albums, democrats, volume, gop, classical, glenn, comedy, rap, linux, russia

Consumers in Russia are excited about the volume of classical GOP comedy; those in Korea are gaga for the rap elements of 3d democrats.

By: griphus

griphus — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:49:11 -0800

...why is "russia" coming up so often?

By: rtha

rtha — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:59:08 -0800

More of us active in the sex trafficking askme/meTa?

By: griphus

griphus — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:02:45 -0800

RIGHT

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:53:00 -0800

This is awesome!

High interest words
ii, 7, askme, metatalk, meta, boston, fpp, birthday, knock, mefi, bacon, wanna, favorites, x, hello, y'all, hi, caps, o, rocks

Low interest words
political, basically, religious, business, legal, several, design, certainly, fact, students, terrible, argument, statement, church, health, market, culture, killed, involved, marriage

KNOCK KNOCK! HELLO Y'ALL! HI! CAPS ROCKS! WANNA BOSTON BIRTHDAY BACON FPP? XO! FAVORITES! Just don't get all serious on me, yeah? I pronounce MeFi "ii 7".

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
iiii, 7777, 777777, iiiii, 77777, 777777777, 7777777, ii7, iiiiiii, i77, 77777777, n_o_d, 77777777777, 777777777777, iiiiii, 7777777777, 7ii, 77777777777777, 777777777777777, i777

More common words you use much more than anyone else:
7i, zombocom, 777, memepool, recursiveness, lederhosen, kleine, xxxxxxx, mefimu, lynnster, i7, sajak, aaaagh, esperanza, chk, jm, not_on_display, xxxxxx, dag, kann

Anything is possible at zombocom. Lobsters wear lederhosen at zombocom. Welcome to zombocom. anyanythingthing is posspossibleible atat zomzombobocomcom. dag! aaaagh! esperanza memepool lobster lederhosen zombocom. eine kleine lobster zombocom lederhosen AND HERE'S SOME ASCII ART! HELLO! HI! XO!

By: EvaDestruction

EvaDestruction — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:56:00 -0800

benito, if you can stand one more request...I would like to see most and least list, too, please.

By: Ivan Fyodorovich

Ivan Fyodorovich — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:39:09 -0800

"...why is "russia" coming up so often?"

I dunno for you, but LH knows Russian and has a long-standing interest and expertise in Russian literature. He's a pretty reliable source on the topic.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:41:05 -0800

Oh, please, benito, please update my report!

By: Phire

Phire — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:17:57 -0800

High interest words
askme, op, would've, favourite, boyfriend, meta, behaviour, relationship, suggestions, mefites, mefi, threads, girlfriend, sleeping, emails, ridiculously, matt, metatalk, y'know, gorgeous

Low interest words
science, ok, war, gay, religious, legal, nobody, president, air, machine, modern, costs, united, dog, cars, laws, tea, conservative, built, film

At a guess it would seem like my "high interest" list is skewed by my AskMe answer history, rather than by my talking abou relationships and how gorgeous I find Matt Smith all the time.

I was also confused about my "low interest" list at first, but then I realized I tend to read-but-not-comment in those threads. Except for "dog". Dogs are boring.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
polyphasic, biphasic, e2cs, korra, merida, gotye, phirephoenix, sansgras, ows, ebaum, suchwhat, trans-folk, kimbra, beekeeper's, kimbra's, mee-fie, shures, knoble, fullmetal, cis-folk

Now this list is kind of hilarious.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:50:03 -0800

I actually not entirely sure what's going on here, but it keeps popping up in my recent activity and it looks fun, so: can I play? Not sure what 'can I play' is even asking, but I'm just going to let that paper sailboat float into the aether and see what comes back.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:10:16 -0800

With such an open invitation for whatever universe chooses to return, goddamn if it wasn't tempting to completely make up all of the words for stavros' clouds. "WTF! I'm sure I've never used the word 'hebephrenic'. I'm not even sure what it means. And I don't even like 'mascarpone'!"

Oh well, I took an oath, and I'll stand by it. Enjoy them, stavros; they're your words, even if you don't understand why.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:20:29 -0800

Heh. Thanks for that. I actually am very much confused by some of the data, there, but I will say that my 'High interest words' include 'amusing', 'bastards', and 'goddamn,' which seems about right.

Looks like my stats were thrown off horribly by that one, ill-advised, pre-youtube-embracing-music-videos thread I posted with a bazillion music video links.

Words you use heavily that (practically) no one else does:
wonderchicken, hama7, gamefilter, scarabic, romanization, 9622, inthread, mfc, kindall, rushmc, jpoulos, soju, y6, 1142, bodom, adamgreenfield, evanescence, ffdshow, gackt, romanized

All usernames, thread numbers (9622 and 1142), Mefight Club or Korea-related, and a couple of ones from that one dumb thread (I assume bands named 'Bodom' and 'Evanescence' -- neither of which I've ever actually listened to, I don't think), which again, seems about right, I guess. I was expecting a lot more creative swearing, though.

By: likeso

likeso — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:03:41 -0800

Well, having reviewed results, I can now state conclusively that I am the most erudite mefite of them all.

High interest words:
dutch, ooh, re, heh, cream, ms, ex, um, contact, meta, op, aw, nah, comfort, topics, askme, guilt, cats, males, er

I am so proud.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:43:20 -0800

Here's my very mathy high-interest words:

Most and least common user words among top 10% site words
Ranked by PPM(user) / PPM(site)

countrel_PPMword
5419.751701mathematics
4918.918553e-mail
22018.276551math
4017.079704mathematical
4115.445160professors
3314.649420faculty
4112.634802probability
3811.196695op
3810.666489harvard
4910.139102graduate
839.770948n
679.383748professor
228.850082terrific
388.333557wedding
207.796538foster
207.010105brooklyn
236.949673scores
276.870699psychology
206.843481courses
296.749047grad

And my low interest:

50.195975religion
50.189560reality
30.189537canada
40.187742software
30.183108videos
30.180970lady
30.179360photos
30.163411ass
30.162708bush
30.156031iphone
30.151231countries
30.150741speech
30.140121suspect
30.127048companies
50.124808although
40.119149police
30.115518security
50.114903gay
70.108505shit
30.059475fuck

You guys cuss a lot. Also you've stopped putting a hyphen in "e-mail," it turns out.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:41:33 -0800

Latebreakin' stats for SisterHavana:

user 10995:69361 words,8594 unique, in2222 comments.

By: EvaDestruction

EvaDestruction — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:56:37 -0800

High interest words
favorites, helpful, suggestions, would've, boyfriend, chocolate, dc, lovely, confidence, comfortable, dating, figuring, mood, challenging, relationship, schedule, feminist, suggestion, clothes, holiday

Low interest words
government, ok, news, political, god, game, power, data, s, games, 4, war, rights, u, old, states, religious, vote, claim, american

(4 is actually my favorite number. Now I feel bad for neglecting it.)

cortex and benito.strauss, this has been much fun. Thank you!

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:32:15 -0800

(benito, could I trouble you for that second enrichment analysis?)

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:35:34 -0800

I too seek enrichment analysis.

By: infinite intimation

infinite intimation — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:50:34 -0800

May I too play Foods that begin with the letter "Q", or why I fell in love with word-crunched numbers for 100 Ril'sok?

(I read that "f-at-m" has been juicing their comments recently (using nested small tags, so it isn't even readable, saying words purely to win the hunger game... dolloping incongruent, advantageous linguistically dis-sound phrases, presumably for proficuous motives, someone ought to demand congress look into the injection of nifty, or under-utilized words into comments for the express purpose of skewing the results of the annual words counts threads;

Cupidity if you ask me. Google saxicolous, Reeple.)

Please :)

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:53:03 -0800

infinite intimation, just to show how nerds can suck the joy out of everything, I'll point out that those sesquipedalian words you threw in there probably will have no effect on your results. Being used just one time means that 'cupidity' will show up next to something mundane like 'cheese', that you also happened to use just once. You'll have to make a consistent effort, in which case you will actually become "the guy who always uses 'frangible' in his posts".

But once cortex creates your extract I'll memail you all your quinoa, quiche, and quodlibet.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:29:20 -0800

infinite intimation, jadepearl: you are go for tables.

user 96984:256661 words,22233 unique, in870 comments.

user 14594:105632 words,11843 unique, in1274 comments.

By: mimi

mimi — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:08:35 -0800

Oh I am so late to this party! Or, rather: fashionable. May I play??

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:23:09 -0800

Party on, mimi:

user 1174:36511 words,6880 unique, in744 comments.

By: philipy

philipy — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:55:49 -0800

Wait, there's even more data dorkery?

Please do tell me what I'm interested in.

By: philipy

philipy — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:24:07 -0800

Here's my stats...

Most and least common user words among top 5000 site words

High interest words
courses, p, mefi, info, btw, y, fwiw, suggestions, stats, x, tech, developing, answers, chances, hypothesis, psychology, domain, randomly, topics, aim

Low interest words
yeah, shit, god, woman, obama, lost, water, oh, dead, house, art, military, song, million, black, society, movie, awesome, sort, hell

Percent overlap of user and site top ranked words: 48.5%

Details: ranked by PPM(user) / PPM(site)

user_count rel_PPM user_rank site_rank word
22 14.044304 495 4757 courses
76 10.894521 177 1395 p
93 10.435214 144 1106 mefi
43 9.858650 301 2075 info
45 9.624684 286 1954 btw
32 8.515314 380 2377 y
19 8.394926 562 3570 fwiw
12 7.888203 834 4880 suggestions
11 7.294617 901 4912 stats
79 6.682642 172 835 x
27 6.639710 438 2210 tech
19 6.322197 557 2857 developing
28 6.315610 418 2047 answers
16 6.195746 638 3220 chances
10 6.194470 950 4642 hypothesis
13 6.171788 780 3772 psychology
16 6.113891 639 3188 domain
11 6.109376 888 4291 randomly
11 6.064586 906 4274 topics
9 5.875068 1006 4834 aim
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6 0.210039 1465 358 hell
9 0.206596 1074 248 sort
6 0.203999 1394 352 awesome
7 0.203812 1311 302 movie
4 0.197326 2238 504 society
5 0.194841 1624 404 black
3 0.191513 2688 634 million
4 0.183149 2239 470 song
3 0.181586 2687 605 military
5 0.181364 1611 372 art
5 0.164784 1731 342 house
3 0.159482 2448 547 dead
9 0.154438 1058 194 oh
3 0.150965 2986 514 water
3 0.148014 2663 506 lost
3 0.134930 2721 462 obama
3 0.134239 3002 459 woman
4 0.124515 2053 323 god
3 0.086757 2860 301 shit
4 0.077086 2291 211 yeah

So I refer to Mefi a lot more than the average Mefite apparently. Who knew?

Also why are you all so interested in discussing water???

As for Benito's game of making sentences from the least used words...

- Hell yeah, Obama's one awesome black woman.

- Oh... God is dead, society is lost, art is shit, and water is hell.

By: tzikeh

tzikeh — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:48:05 -0800

Oh wow - just found this. Cortex, if you're still monitoring, I'd love to see my wordcloud.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:57:33 -0800

Kapow! (benito.strauss does the word cloud bit.)

user 20459:170533 words,15805 unique, in2293 comments

By: tzikeh

tzikeh — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:31:54 -0800

Thanks! off to bug benito.strauss... :)