Fun With Large Rivers
Thursday, April 21st, 2005 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniSo, over on the page for the Ace edition of Local Custom, we find the following:
Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs); a Concordance of the 100 most-used words; Readability Indices; Complexity; Number of Characters/Words/Sentences and the Fun Fact. For Local Custom, the Fun Fact is that the hopeful buyer will be getting 17,307 words per ounce. This is in comparison with the words-per-ounce for Scout's Progress of 18,209. Obviously, Scout is the smarter choice, price-per-word-wise.
Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs); a Concordance of the 100 most-used words; Readability Indices; Complexity; Number of Characters/Words/Sentences and the Fun Fact. For Local Custom, the Fun Fact is that the hopeful buyer will be getting 17,307 words per ounce. This is in comparison with the words-per-ounce for Scout's Progress of 18,209. Obviously, Scout is the smarter choice, price-per-word-wise.
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Date: 2005-04-21 09:25 am (UTC)(I did have a young foreigner buy FIRE SANCTUARY at a signing because it had lots of English words he hadn't seen used in a novel yet, and he was trying to improve his English....)
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Date: 2005-04-21 10:45 am (UTC)I'm assuming this is one of those "we do it because we can" geek features based on their having the novel text available through their "search inside the book" feature.
Is there anyone who cares about words per ounce? Or knowing about the Fog Index versus the Flesch Index (not to be confused with the Flesch-Kincaid index which is listed separately)?
I note that the entry for The Plot Against America lists both "war agitators" and "pretzel factory" as a statistically improbable phrases, while Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell has "four hundred guineas" and "new manservant" on its list of SIPs.