More Pix For A Laugh

[bayonetbrant]

I wonder how one goes about tallying the most common sentences...? That would be a useful stylistic tool.

Digital copy of the book
Put a hard return at the end of each sentence
Dump the book into Excel
Run a pivot table or frequency count

[mirth]

I wonder how one goes about tallying the most common sentences...? That would be a useful stylistic tool.

Digital copy of the book
Put a hard return at the end of each sentence
Dump the book into Excel
Run a pivot table or frequency count

I love it when you talk sexy.

[MetalDog]

It wouldn't do him any good anyways.  He's never around in the end to use it.

[Martok]

Indeed.  Life insurance would be a lot more useful for him... 

[mirth]

Indeed.  Life insurance would be a lot more useful for him... 

Who would cover him?

[Martok]

Lloyd's? 

[Dolan50]

[bob48]

I can hear the Lutine Bell ringing already.

[GDS_Starfury]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[GDS_Starfury]

Digital copy of the book
Put a hard return at the end of each sentence
Dump the book into Excel
Run a pivot table or frequency count

I love a hard return at the end of your sentences.
and then when you dump it on my pivot table.....

my frequency just skyrockets.

its almost as much of a good time as Gus beating my naked flesh with an oxford comma while he tells me to call him Papi.

[undercovergeek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5iqYuFmzqg

[JasonPratt]

I wonder how one goes about tallying the most common sentences...? That would be a useful stylistic tool.

Digital copy of the book
Put a hard return at the end of each sentence
Dump the book into Excel
Run a pivot table or frequency count

I can see how that would work, but I'd have to figure out how to add hard returns automatically at the end of each sentence. Because dang if I'm going to do that manually.  :P (Quiet, Star.  ::) :-X)

You could use a search tool of some kind to tally up phrases in an e-copy of the book. I'd be surprised if that feature wasn't already part of some word processing suites favored by writers.

Well, I do all my composition on Word nowadays. Specifically, Word 2004 for Mac. I'm pretty sure my other author friends spit on Word, so no surprise it doesn't seem to have that function (although it has some kind of algorhythm for counting sentences. Uh, no, apparently it doesn't, must have been wishful thinking!)

[bayonetbrant]

Digital copy of the book
Put a hard return at the end of each sentence
Dump the book into Excel
Run a pivot table or frequency count

I can see how that would work, but I'd have to figure out how to add hard returns automatically at the end of each sentence. Because dang if I'm going to do that manually.  :P (Quiet, Star.  ::) :-X)

Find & replace!

Find all the different punctuation marks that end sentences ./!/?
Replace with that + return
You'll also want to remove all the quotes, since they'll really screw up your counts
You may want to replace all the abbreviations like "Mr." with "Mr" just to kill any accidental returns where you don't really want them

[Barthheart]

[Barthheart]

One fer LB....