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| Title: | ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE |
| Notice: | V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 873 |
| Total number of notes: | 22329 |
383.0. "A small concordance for word freaks" by CADSE::GLIDEWELL () Thu Jul 09 1987 21:52
I'm analyzing notes 300.* to 334.3 to see what happens in womannotes:
the gender of who makes topics, replies, flames, and other stuff. As part
of this study, I made a simple concordance showing all words appearing and
their frequency. Word freaks may find this interesting, so here is a small,
sample, about 7 screens worth. (Send me mail if you want the full concordance,
a 1,500 block ascii file, about 22,000 unique words.) Meigs
HIGHEST FREQUENCY WORDS
the 6183
to 4115
of 3727
and 3206
a 3009
PRONOUNS AND HIGH FREQ PEOPLE WORDS
I 2898
me 494
you 1194
we 665 our 251
us 200
they 737
them 309
who 586
people 502
GENDER AND FAMILY WORDS
women 846
men 407
woman 183
man 110
female 99
male 142
females 22
males 33
she 352
he 286
her 286
him 76
hers 5
his 146
mother 89
father 13
mom 18
dad 11
wife 34
husband 18
wives 3
husbands 3
children 110
child 76
kids 103
girl 30
boy 21
girls 31
boys 46
girl-child 2
boy-child 1
baby 4
babies 3
pregnancies 7, pregnancy 5, pregnant 1
married 42
divorced 7
marriages 2
divorces 1
SEXUAL ORIENTATION WORDS
sex 145
sexual 51
sexually 23
gay 103
heterosexual 29
homosexual 15
heterosexuals 20
homosexuals 18
lesbians 11
chaste 10
chastity 21
celibacy 9 end of sample concordance
The concordance also shows a high frequency of words about jobs, money,
feminism, education, and individual-group relations (words such as family,
community, society, colleagues, friends, group). ALSO, a scarcity (~4%) of
nouns denoting objects, like table-14 and taco-1. Plus some wonderful words,
like aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr-1, mudluscious-7, and wonderful-14. BYE-3
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 383.1 | what, no "grins" ?!? | CSSE::MARGE | an ergonomical delight! | Thu Jul 09 1987 22:40 | 1 |
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| 383.2 | | ARMORY::CHARBONND | Noto, Ergo Sum | Fri Jul 10 1987 07:54 | 1 |
| :-) :-(
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| 383.3 | | BCSE::RYAN | One never knows, do one? | Fri Jul 10 1987 13:02 | 9 |
| >hers 5
>his 146
Now this is interesting... most other related pairs are in the
same ballpark, with the "female" side generally having the
advantage (of course - this *is* WOMANNOTES). Any theories on
why the men dominate so much in the possessive form?
Mike
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| 383.4 | Not equivalent | DSSDEV::BURROWS | Jim Burrows | Fri Jul 10 1987 13:27 | 22 |
| The explaination of the the "his" vs "hers" is that the words
aren't siymmetirc.
The dog was his.
The dog was hers.
It's his dog.
It's her dog.
Give it to him.
Give it to her.
You have to compare his+him to hers+her. That results in:
his 146 her 286
him 76 hers 5
---- ----
222 291
That's a lot more in line with the others such as
he 286 she 352
JimB.
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| 383.5 | English was never my strongest subject:-) | BCSE::RYAN | One never knows, do one? | Mon Jul 13 1987 12:52 | 0 |
| 383.6 | :-) | BEES::PARE | | Mon Jul 13 1987 13:56 | 6 |
| You can't have included my notes in that survey or you would have
found:
chocolate Transmission_problems Delinquent_account
1980000 450 7842
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