ינואר 2017

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theorigamiphoenix:

A TL;DR:

John and Jade talk a lot like each other: look carefully. His most distinctive word is “Jade.”

Jade’s most distinctive word is “John.”

Rose speaks the most diversely of the betas. Her most distinctive word is “session.”

Dave curses the fifth most of any character. Unsurprisingly, his most distinctive word is “shit.”

The longer version

John’s lexical density (a rough measure of word diversity and thus vocabulary) is 8.9%, which is low for his corpus size of 34,000 words—he’s the second biggest talker in Homestuck after Karkat with 39,000 words. His cursing rate is 0.41%, which is low, and he prefers to use “shit.”

Jade’s LD is 10.6% from nearly 19,000 words, which is low. Compare John and Jade’s clouds and you’ll see the similarity in their speech. Her cursing rate is 0.12%, which is very low.

Rose’s LD is , 17.0% from about 21,000 words, which is higher than expected.. Her cursing rate is 0.16%, which is very low.

Dave’s LD is 12.6% from about 33,000 words, which is about average for this corpus size. He says the third most of any character in the web comic after John. If it’s not obvious, Dave’s cursing rate is very high at 2.27%. His lexical weapon of choice is f*ck, making up 40% of all his 758 verbal bombs so far.

All of the dialog was compiled as one big corpus to which each character was compared to using AntConc. The top five were chosen, ignoring any common or interjective words.

John’s most distinctive words are Jade, dad, Rose, Vriska, and guess.

Jade’s are John, password, woof, Bec, and frog. I usually prefer to remove onomatopoeic words but “woof” was too cute to not include. Most of the woofs come from the time she chased Jaspersprite down the hallway on the ship.

Rose’s are session, Kanaya, grist, question, and null. Three of them all refer to some part of Sburb: the kids’s session, grist of various sorts, and a null session.

Dave’s most distinctive words are shit, f*cking, f*ck, dude, and f*ckin. This makes it very apparent how much more he curses than the other betas.

Excluding John’s own cloud, John is the most frequently mentioned character in all of the other beta kids’ dialog.

aaaa i haven’t posted in forever and i probably still won’t for a while cause life reasons, but here’s some really rad statistics someone else figured out!

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In Homestuck deaths part one, you list rose fading into oblivion as a death, which is understandable, based on the phrasing. Only problem is that she merges with the other Rose from the main timeline, which she references in a much later panel (somewhere on the meteor I think). It's not really something that needs to be corrected, but I just felt it was worth mention that her death there is dubious.

i actually counted it as a dubious death in the graphs, i just forgot to say so in the original post. fixed now!

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Although Dave is responsible for most decapitations, doesn't he get decapitated once also?

if we’re talking about this dave:

i’m gonna say it doesn’t count since we never saw his his head actually come off. i think throat-slitting is much more likely, especially since it mirrors this:

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On the killer graph, it was stated that Meenah killed 26 people, but I only recall her killing 12 characters (The alpha trolls). Are you counting her forking dream John? All the deaths caused by the Condesce? Where is the number coming from? Thanks!

oh ye sorry i made that post forever ago and really should have clarified better: all the death statistics are for every version of a character. since they’re the ones who actually played the game, i consider the dancestors to be the ‘alpha’ version of the ancestors. so yes, it’s counting the condesce too.

in all honesty though, saying who is responsible for a death is sometimes difficult and i’ve had like one or two corrections since then, so the killer graph is slightly off by a death or two.  the actual lists and victim stats are still all accurate tho!