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words

Written by: Druid Ozfingwe Alexandrian-Lighthawk
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2003
Addressed to: Covenant Stormcrow


g'day,

in your previous post, you stated:
"I had a nice post written for this, but realized all
the words longer than 6 letters would have to be
explained, so I will redo it so its more clear to everyone."

now, while you addressed Kaelin, you also mention "everyone"
so i went about and tried to figure it out!

not counting the first paragraph, and considering "don't" as
one word actually, your post had 129 words in it. of these,
101 (!) were words with less than 6 letters. 14 had exactly
6 letters (i will refer to these as "comprehensively
challenging"), and 14 had more than 6 letters, which ill put
into the category of "unintelligible".

just based on word count, your post would therefore make it
close to 90% comprehensible - thats pretty good!

lets have a closer analysis.

the longest word was intelligence - well chosen, considering
you associate the ability to understand a word with its
respective number of letters.
i enjoyed phallic very much, however id say you overdid it -
with 7 letters, its just over the brink of being understood,
so the point of it went by unnoticed.

now, ive grammatically and syntactically reduced your post
down to a level like "you - moron - kill", removing adverbial
suffixes, plurals, indefinite articles, superfluous
pronouns, etc. the result is:
"pathetic - sword - phallic - envy - gonads"
its easy to see you want us to flip a coin! 2 words with more
than 6 letters, 2 with less, and the focal point of gonads
with exactly 6 letters.

well done,
+Oz.

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Glacian, in the year 348 AF.


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Public News Post #11790

words

Written by: Druid Ozfingwe Alexandrian-Lighthawk
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2003
Addressed to: Covenant Stormcrow


g'day,

in your previous post, you stated:
"I had a nice post written for this, but realized all
the words longer than 6 letters would have to be
explained, so I will redo it so its more clear to everyone."

now, while you addressed Kaelin, you also mention "everyone"
so i went about and tried to figure it out!

not counting the first paragraph, and considering "don't" as
one word actually, your post had 129 words in it. of these,
101 (!) were words with less than 6 letters. 14 had exactly
6 letters (i will refer to these as "comprehensively
challenging"), and 14 had more than 6 letters, which ill put
into the category of "unintelligible".

just based on word count, your post would therefore make it
close to 90% comprehensible - thats pretty good!

lets have a closer analysis.

the longest word was intelligence - well chosen, considering
you associate the ability to understand a word with its
respective number of letters.
i enjoyed phallic very much, however id say you overdid it -
with 7 letters, its just over the brink of being understood,
so the point of it went by unnoticed.

now, ive grammatically and syntactically reduced your post
down to a level like "you - moron - kill", removing adverbial
suffixes, plurals, indefinite articles, superfluous
pronouns, etc. the result is:
"pathetic - sword - phallic - envy - gonads"
its easy to see you want us to flip a coin! 2 words with more
than 6 letters, 2 with less, and the focal point of gonads
with exactly 6 letters.

well done,
+Oz.

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Glacian, in the year 348 AF.


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