Outside of Ulysses and Moby Dick, what books have the largest vocabularies (# of unique words)?
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Outside of Ulysses and Moby Dick, what books have the largest vocabularies (# of unique words)?
Outside of Ulysses and Moby Dick, what books have the largest vocabularies (# of unique words)?
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The OED.
I think IJ beats out both of them if memory serves.
IJ is 20,584.
Generally they strip the suffixes and count the words, banks and bank end up one word. This is just simple algorithm counting, people do not go through these books one at a time making counts.
Must be Aesop Rock at extreme right, I wonder who's at extreme left (looks like Eminem but it can't be..?)
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https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
Finnegans Wake has more unique words than Ulysses
Suttree has around 15000 unique words but 5000 of them are only used once in McCarthy's oeuvre which is pretty amazing given his habit for archaisms.
It's ISOLT. They ranked it (I forget with what test) but it has the densest vocab of any book even Joyce. It was like 800 requires a doctorate level college education and it was like at 3 thousand. If anyone remembers the name of that linguistic test it would be helpful.
bot generated post? isolts vocabulary count is less than shakespeares
Not literature
What makes words different words?
A combination of spelling, definition and pronunciation.
No. It's meaning and use. 'Leaves' as a noun and 'leaves' as a verb are different words, for example. Spelling is incidental.
Are goose and geese different words? What about bank and banks? What about bank and bank?
Yes
that's not the reason that is impressive and stop pretending it is
What about accents? Are shit, shite, and shieet one word or 3?
>finna gunna getta glocka nom nam sayn shiet fug muh dick be lit frfr dayum shawtt mid fizz dizz biz
Some white liberal: modern day Shakespeare
less words the better. I can't take anyone seriously if they sound like they wrote the song while sitting beside a thesaurus
>He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings