Originally posted by GatecrasherI always make a letter count when I read a post, and I only give recs for posts with an unusually high number of o's (it's a nice and round letter with a nice and round sound). I also won't rec posts with too many r's (the letter is neither nice-looking nor nice-sounding, and I have never been able to pronounce the apical R properly despite practising for years, so the letter makes me feel bad). I thought everybody did that (meaning the letter count - I am sure different people have different preferences when it comes to favourite letters).
So maybe the letters that make up the words that make up the sentences that make up the posts do influence how we feel about the message. On a subconscious level, of course, because I doubt that anyone goes, "Ooooh, four X's in that post... Rec."
Originally posted by NordlysYou are truly mad.
I always make a letter count when I read a post, and I only give recs for posts with an unusually high number of o's (it's a nice and round letter with a nice and round sound). I also won't rec posts with too many r's (the letter is neither nice-looking nor nice-sounding, and I have never been able to pronounce the apical R properly despite practising for ye ...[text shortened]... - I am sure different people have different preferences when it comes to favourite letters).
Originally posted by XanthosNZJesus Christ , man! Do you know what girls are? Have you ever talked to one? Kissed one?
After I started this survey I added another method of analysis, letter frequency. I wrote a quick and dirty java program (thanks to Starrman for helping to optimise my code so it didn't take all day to run) that would count how often each letter occurred in a block of text and then add it to a total.
Here is the processed data:
http://img.photobucket.c ...[text shortened]... the other end are E, I, R, S, U and Y. Does anyone know of anything that could explain this?
You really do NEED to get out from behind that computer.
Originally posted by GatecrasherNow I understand why spelling is so important to Xan. It messes up the study of rec's. Because if you count each misspelled word and the letters in each word verses correct spelling the results of the wasted time in doing this study could be completely false and misleading which can cause drug companies to create drugs that cause cancer.
Hmm, well that is a very interesting finding.
Perhaps certain letters are "friendlier" and "nicer" than others. When it comes to the vowels, I've always "liked" A and O, and never been very fond of E, I and U. Couldn't tell you why.
I once analyzed lotto payouts and determined that certain numbers are much more popular than others. Whenever the ...[text shortened]... urse, because I doubt that anyone goes, "Ooooh, four X's in that post... Rec."