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« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2010, 12:56:38 PM » |
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eidolon - 4 ululate - 5 (incl. variations) effulgence - 5 vermicular - 0 execrable - 1 limn - 4 iridescence - 2 antediluvian - 11 Those are some doozies! How about:
eidolon
ululate
effulgence
vermicular
execrable
limn
iridescence
antediluvian
I first encountered all of these words in my Penguin Lovecraft collections at the tender age of 31. Between Lovecraft and T.C. Boyle I have become the go-to guy at work for that impossible crossword clue.
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« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2010, 05:34:20 PM » |
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Did we get 'antiquarian' and its variants yet? I'm pretty sure he used that one about 50 times in Charles Dexter Ward alone.
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The Colour scorched my lands
and burned away my family.
Need money for Eldersign.
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« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2010, 10:16:57 PM » |
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Did we get 'antiquarian' and its variants yet? I'm pretty sure he used that one about 50 times in Charles Dexter Ward alone.
Very good point!  Matches for the stem "antiqu" - 133. 27x in CDW alone. |
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I AM Schenectady
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« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2010, 11:38:57 PM » |
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vermicular - 0
Zero?! I just figured that I must have learned "vermicular" (resembling a worm in form or motion) from the Lurking Fear. I suppose it could have been John Grisham. |
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« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2010, 10:40:09 AM » |
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vermicular - 0
Zero?! I just figured that I must have learned "vermicular" (resembling a worm in form or motion) from the Lurking Fear. I suppose it could have been John Grisham. To be sure, I tried finding it on the DagonBytes text, no dice there either. Maybe there was a similar word? |
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Dionysius8421
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« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2010, 02:43:31 PM » |
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Try "Comprehension," "mortal," and "immemorial."
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« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2010, 11:01:12 PM » |
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Try "Comprehension," "mortal," and "immemorial."
Comprehension - 10 mortal - 67 immemorial - 31 |
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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2010, 07:33:03 PM » |
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Fantastic thread! Literary resource if there ever was one.
Is it too late to ask for charnel, demoniac and stygian?
Edited to fix spelling. - Genus Unknown
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« Reply #23 on: December 24, 2010, 11:20:02 PM » |
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I'll see if I can dig up the file (not sure where I stowed it) and count those for you. |
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« Reply #24 on: December 25, 2010, 06:03:09 AM » |
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antedeluvian ?
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I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can in Turne call up somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use. Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shall not wish to Answer, and shall commande more than you.
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« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2010, 09:58:42 AM » |
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Just for the lulz, "the"
There's normally at least 2 per sentence.
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« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2010, 03:49:56 PM » |
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Please crunch the numbers for "fainted." Thanks.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2010, 10:04:00 PM » |
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Ok, I'm going to hold off on all of these until I finish the ginormous formatted file I'm working on. But keep leaving any requests you have because I'm going to come back and do another round of all of these. The other file I got was from Project Gutenberg, this one I'm putting together myself and therefore have more faith in. I'm using HPLovecraft.com as reference. Only putting in things he wrote himself and the Sonia Greene collab because I find it especially interesting. And she was sort-of a Lovecraft for a few "thoroughly adequate" years, right?  Edited to add: I'm up to 1926! There are still plenty to go, but when I remove the collabs it's not too bad. |
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« Reply #28 on: January 02, 2011, 06:01:19 AM » |
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Cool! I found an HPL word-frequency list on a French site a few years ago but it was incomplete. How are you doing it? I was thinking there must be some way to create an index using Microsoft Word of every word, but never got beyond that to how Word might count the instances.
Gutenberg does have the United Amateur stuff now, that's right. Wikisource.org also has some poetry. I would want to add Misc Writings edited by Joshi, which is pure HPL, and probably To Quebec and the Stars.
I had a silly idea: if you created an index of all words used in Lovecraft's writing, you could assign a list number to each word, then replace each actual word in the text with the number in proper sequence. 12 371 22 98. It would make a great cypher, but beyond that, you could take the cypher text and convert it to hexadecimal or something, then compress it, and it would be a very compact Compleate Workes. I guess it would shrink the 63 MB pdf file Lovecraft - The Fiction down to about 63 KB or so.
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« Reply #29 on: January 02, 2011, 10:24:36 PM » |
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Cool! I found an HPL word-frequency list on a French site a few years ago but it was incomplete. How are you doing it? I was thinking there must be some way to create an index using Microsoft Word of every word, but never got beyond that to how Word might count the instances.
Doing this kind of analysis, if you have the source material as an ASCII text file, is trivial in UNIX or Linux. Really, you only need grep, uniq, sort, wc and if you want to get fancy awk and sed. - Derrik |
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