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Old 02-08-2009, 08:54 AM   #7
geodeticman.5
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Default Re: Total word count of all Lightfoot Lyrics

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Originally Posted by jj View Post
I read that JohnF has been working on the calc and some sort of other analysis for a while ...if he doesn't post the tally soon you or I will steal his thunder ...i don't know what it really means, i just have total, per itunes...

only 12,954 (ie, 50 per song? ) I would quadruple that estimate

ok, what's the #of unique words in his lyrics? or the #of adjectives and nouns...now that would be a nice list to see

we've already nailed the list of Pronouns
jj - I reccomended your resources that could be tapped on your ipod with the whole library - when the question first came up - it seems to me (w/o ALL the info - granted) that duplictious effort. or better said - unneccessary effort is taking place at Sir John Bart level is taking place. With the total you spoke of having on your ipod jj, quite awhile back. If any one else is doing it, its a simple spreadsheet app. Couple of hours ? . I am only guessing,=. The main q would be efficient and non-manual data imput - a data stream with or w/o breaks to input into windows office. But like I had echo'd from you mentioning it a good several months ago, you allready have it on you ipod. Can you get a song count (I'm sure) and a word count (I'm not sure) ?
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