Characters/Word July 2005

This is count #5.

Intro

I took some AIM logs (the ones that were > 75 KB; about 2,000 lines) that run from between July 19 and July 11, 2004. I removed everything that wasn't user-typed (sign on/off, timestamp, screen name, etc).

Then I used Word to count words, characters, lines, and other fun stuff. The figures here include my half of the convo as well as the half from the person whose name is listed.

I think I chose more logs this time than I have in the past (even though I used the same 75 KB cutoff), because a lot of people I don't talk to much popped up in these charts.

The Numbers

These are tables sorted by characters per word, words per line, percent of words that are lol's, and percent of words that are haha's.

Chars/Word
Arthur 4.614
Chang 4.457
CiCi 4.343
KT 4.328
Yufei 4.292
Allon 4.236
Gene 4.226
Charles 4.191
Shelley 4.180
Victoria 4.176
Maylene 4.142
Shelly 4.132
Drew 4.130
Will 4.122
Yujing 4.090
Words/Line
Erica 5.725
Shelly 5.372
Arthur 4.912
Drew 4.705
Andrea 4.500
KT 4.499
Tiffany 4.472
Yufei 4.472
Charles 4.343
Lilly 4.079
Bill 4.046
Gene 4.013
Allon 4.012
Wendy 3.933
Akbar 3.932
lol/word %
Will 6.899
Gene 5.626
CiCi 3.475
Shelley 3.360
Shelly 3.301
Tricia 3.214
Yufei 2.941
Akbar 2.926
Maylene 2.906
Chang 2.900
Wendy 2.866
Ronjon 2.805
Charles 2.775
Yujing 2.709
Eva 2.624
haha/word %
Yujing 2.390
Davita 2.389
Tricia 2.276
Shelly 2.158
Erica 1.898
Tiffany 1.829
Maylene 1.809
Yufei 1.728
Victoria 1.270
Lilly 1.231
Andrea 0.925
CiCi 0.879
Akbar 0.854
Mary 0.706
Wendy 0.692

What's Interesting

Not much interesting about the first column. The second column says that Erica is incapable of forming coherent thoughts and likes to ram everything into one line. On the other hand, anyone who isn't on that list is incapable of forming coherent thoughts and spits out jumbles of words. Somehow, Bill is in the happy medium. Weird.

Will says lol too much, and so does Gene. Everyone else doesn't say it enough.

In the last category (the haha/word % one), the top ten are small Asian girls if we choose to include Yujing and Yufei as small (more or less) Asian girls. This last ranking could be used as an indicator of how giddy and tehehehehe^^-ish someone is. I mean, looking at the names on the list, that does make sense, right? Especially near the top.

There's not much to read into in these rankings. I'm just in China with some relatives and really bored, so I did this. Nothing else to it.

Explanations

If you're confused, I'll explain here what this is supposed to mean.

Chars/Word is the average amount of letters (not including spaces) per word. Words/Line is, obviously, the average number of words per line of the log. An IM (no matter how long) is one line unless someone typed a line break into it.

lol/word % is the number of lol's per 100 words. If you were to randomly take a sample of 100 words from between Will and me, you would probably get 7 lol's. Similarly, haha/word % is the number of haha's per 100 words.

Last updated November 22, 2004.
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