Jesus Beats Satan 7:1, Edged out By Liberal
Have you seen WordCount?
It's a genius and insigtful project from the mind of, shall we say, Socialogical Computer Programmer Jonathan Harris who's work "involves the exploration and understanding of humans, on a global scale, through the artifacts they leave behind on the Web."
Unlike the Googlesmack which pits words and phrases against eachother using the Google search engine (thus, words written by every goober on the Internets), WordCount is a graphical and interactive ranking of the 86,800 most common words in the English language as written by the more lucid world:
WordCount data currently comes from the British National Corpus®, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage. WordCount includes all words that occur at least twice in the BNC®. In the future, WordCount will be modified to track word usage within any desired text, website, and eventually the entire Internet.Words can say a lot about a culture - in this case, the English-speaking world. The word "Jesus" is ranked #1845, with "liberal" beating it out by 6 at #1839. "Satan" has gotten seriously behind thee at the 12864th spot. But He Who Is Known By Many Names sneaks up at #4802 as "devil" (right next to "femenist" hmm), and sneaks under the radar at 74281 as "Beezlebub" and #84987 as "Mephisto." "Evolutionism" totally smokes "creationism" at #37974 to #83461. "Intercourse" is still better than "masturbation" at #7533 to #22131. In an odd twist of events, "Palestinian" beats "Jew" #6460 to #12623. What are some good comparisons you can come up with?
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