93.47
Then I tried again going for a low score. I used “cat, dog, walk, talk, eat, fish, bone” and got 63.48. It appears to have allowed a verb into that selection. I’m highly dubious this proves anything, but it was a pleasant enough three minute diversion.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 15 Jul 2021, 6:56,
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Fun to manipulate the results these tests.
Posting it here gets a range of relatively high scores. Putting it on the Sun/Express/Mail etc websites might get a very different range.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 15 Jul 2021, 14:43,
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A journalist friend of mine said that it can take more skill to write for the tabloid press
- compared to writing for the broadsheets. Everything has to be stripped down to the point, then steered toward the editorial goals, whereas there's no economy of language required to write for the FT, the Telegraph, or the Gaurdian. Still got your editorial goals though.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 15 Jul 2021, 15:42,
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Yes, having to be brief and most easily understood can be quite a task.
I think being verbose is often an attempt to sound clever.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 15 Jul 2021, 18:01,
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"They went for a walk"
Walk is a noun when it's an event. There's a lot of nouns derived from verbs that way, and vice versa.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 15 Jul 2021, 15:37,
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Yes, dear.
Thanks for the breaking news about the interchangeability of verbs and nouns in English. However is ‘eat’ a noun? It’s creeping into the vernacular in the plural as a mass noun, but in the singular?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 15 Jul 2021, 17:46,
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Today's vernacular is the formal language of the next generation
Pretty nice, eh?
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Fri 16 Jul 2021, 13:41,
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What a lot of bollocks you talk.
Most vernacular remains just that. For example, 'bollocks'.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 16 Jul 2021, 17:17,
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Sorry, being too subtle.
"Pretty" and "Nice" are words that have radically changed meaning over the centuries. Kind of as if "Wicked" had come to exclusively mean "good".
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Fri 16 Jul 2021, 18:40,
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