http://oxfordhacker.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] oxfordhacker.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] oxfordhacker 2009-03-05 11:33 am (UTC)

It's the proper and common nouns I find most interesting.

Which is in itself interesting, because the thing that struck me most is the amount of qualification: 'certainly', 'probably', 'really', 'pretty', 'much'... I guess that reflects a desire for accuracy, or at least a tendency to (over-)interpretation. Also that I seem to spend all my time thinking, feeling, reading and writing (which I suppose isn't surprising given the context).

That said, now I come to look at the proper nouns they are intriguing. I'm not surprised that [livejournal.com profile] tinyjo appears, obviously, but it's interesting that the only other people that feature are [livejournal.com profile] archie and [livejournal.com profile] squigglyruth...

now I wish I could do this on them

I am such a sucker for interpretation of data. I spent far too long last night graphing and otherwise analysing this stuff. The sheer number of options that Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) offers, both technical and aesthetic, nearly paralysed me...

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