John and Jade talk a lot like each other: look carefully. His most distinctive word is “Jade.”
Jade’s most distinctive word is “John.”
Rose speaks the most diversely of the betas. Her most distinctive word is “session.”
Dave curses the fifth most of any character. Unsurprisingly, his most distinctive word is “shit.”
John’s lexical density (a rough measure of word diversity and thus vocabulary) is 8.9%, which is low for his corpus size of 34,000 words–he’s the second biggest talker in Homestuck after Karkat with 39,000 words. His cursing rate is 0.41%, which is low, and he prefers to use “shit.”
Jade’s LD is 10.6% from nearly 19,000 words, which is low. Compare John and Jade’s clouds and you’ll see the similarity in their speech. Her cursing rate is 0.12%, which is very low.
Rose’s LD is , 17.0% from about 21,000 words, which is higher than expected.. Her cursing rate is 0.16%, which is very low.
Dave’s LD is 12.6% from about 33,000 words, which is about average for this corpus size. He says the third most of any character in the web comic after John. If it’s not obvious, Dave’s cursing rate is very high at 2.27%. His lexical weapon of choice is fuck, making up 40% of all his 758 verbal bombs so far.
All of the dialog was compiled as one big corpus to which each character was compared to using AntConc. The top five were chosen, ignoring any common or interjective words.
John’s most distinctive words are Jade, dad, Rose, Vriska, and guess.
Jade’s are John, password, woof, Bec, and frog. I usually prefer to remove onomatopoeic words but “woof” was too cute to not include. Most of the woofs come from the time she chased Jaspersprite down the hallway on the ship.
Rose’s are session, Kanaya, grist, question, and null. Three of them all refer to some part of Sburb: the kids’s session, grist of various sorts, and a null session.
Dave’s most distinctive words are shit, fucking, fuck, dude, and fuckin. This makes it very apparent how much more he curses than the other betas.
Excluding John’s own cloud, John is the most frequently mentioned character in all of the other beta kids’ dialog.
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