Everything Everyone Said Ever

[preus]

Try this one.
www.scribd.com/doc/7831358/Gunnerkrigg
If it asks you to log in, but give 'em my email address ([e-mail]). Password is Zimmy.

[preus]

And Eglamore edges ahead of Zimmy! He's making great strides in word count this chapter.

[preus]

Wow. In one fell swoop, Coyote has overtaken Tea, Aly and Parley.

[snes]

Nov 24, 2008 8:09:20 GMT preus said:

Wow. In one fell swoop, Coyote has overtaken Tea, Aly and Parley.

Doesn't surprise me.

[fishf00d]

Coyote does tend to speak a lot.

[preus]

Coyote is rocketing ahead! He's now said more than Mort and Robot!

[Count Casimir]

As icing on the original herculean cake, the play-by-play commentary is a pretty awesome touch.

[atorichan]

That's amazing.

It kinda reminds me of what I had to do while translating a manga...
(My Career of Choice is a Japanese Translator, soon to be Japanese/Russian Translator - I LOVE LANGUAGES!!)

[preus]

Animony, of course, remains miles ahead of everyone else, but Coyote continues to shoot up and up. I think it's very likely that he'll overtake Anja by chapter's end, and possibly even Red.
Red's word count is very high, considering she's only been in two chapters, and she is currently exactly 100 words ahead of Coyote. Can he hit that mark?

[snes]

You should put all the dialog in www.wordle.net/ and make the Gunnerkrigg Court Wordcloud!

[preus]

www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/365730/Untitled
Your wish has been granted. Of course, it couldn't fit all 20,708 words in a single cloud, so it kind of randomized it. Still, it is recognizably Gunnerkrigg-y.
It contains the words Antimony, Reynardine, Eglamore, Robots, Parley, Annie, Kat, Zimmy, Robot, Carver, Forest, Coyote, Surma, Gamma, Ysengrin, Court, Jones, and Shadow. But the others are fairly generic words that could've come from anywhere.

[preus]

That's a great website, snes. I also made a Batman villains word cloud. www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/365748/Batman_Villains

[preus]

He's done it! Coyote has said more than Anja!

[Kuraru]

Nov 27, 2008 1:35:12 GMT Count Casimir said:

As icing on the original herculean cake, the play-by-play commentary is a pretty awesome touch.

It's best if you imagine racing car noises in the background.

[snes]

Dec 8, 2008 8:42:50 GMT preus said:

He's done it! Coyote has said more than Anja!

Just a bit more, and he'll pass Red as well!

[preus]

And he has! He's passed Red, Zimmy and Eglamore. This chapter could actually see Coyote being in third position behind Annie and Kat. Can he overtake Reynardine? He's already gone from 242 to 817.

[snes]

I'm thinking Jones is a distinct possibility, but he'd have to do some serious plot exposition in the next couple weeks to pass up Raynardine.

[Tierra Y Libertad]

Dec 5, 2008 22:56:48 GMT preus said:

www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/365730/Untitled
Your wish has been granted. Of course, it couldn't fit all 20,708 words in a single cloud, so it kind of randomized it. Still, it is recognizably Gunnerkrigg-y.
It contains the words Antimony, Reynardine, Eglamore, Robots, Parley, Annie, Kat, Zimmy, Robot, Carver, Forest, Coyote, Surma, Gamma, Ysengrin, Court, Jones, and Shadow. Butthe others are fairly generic words that could've come from anywhere.

I disagree. I think that the frequency of certain words tells us something important about the themes of the comic, e.g. Think, Time, Friend, Look, Know, Like, See, Going, First, Now, Something, Thank, One, and Yes.

[Azeltir]

I was reading through - don't ask me why! - and found a type on page 38 of the Scribd copy, in Red's dialog. She actually says “Ayup! He came to look at that metal bird dealie.”

"metal" was "meal" in that copy.

Ben

EDIT: Another! Under Dr. Disaster:
“DISASTER! Is their haste, the Spacemonauts were captured by the Enigmarons and taken to their evil lair!"

Change "Is" to "In".

[preus]

Dec 14, 2008 5:53:36 GMT Azeltir said:

I was reading through - don't ask me why! - and found a type on page 38 of the Scribd copy, in Red's dialog. She actually says “Ayup! He came to look at that metal bird dealie.”

"metal" was "meal" in that copy.

Ben

EDIT: Another! Under Dr. Disaster:
“DISASTER! Is their haste, the Spacemonauts were captured by the Enigmarons and taken to their evil lair!"

Change "Is" to "In".

Thank you very, very much. If anyone else happens upon these, please tell me. The document must be perfected!
Btw, here's the latest version:
www.scribd.com/doc/8960245/Gunnerkrigg

[lingus]

I don't know if you've thought of this... and I don't know how you'd accomplish it... but it might be interesting if you could sort dialogue in different ways. I'm thinking if you could tag each line with certain data, for instance, so you could sort it in order of timeline... Basically, you'd be able to read the script of the comic in order.

As it is, great work. I'm just thinking if you're searching for a specific line of dialogue, you might remember that it was in a certain order rather than said by a certain person. Or, if you remember a certain line, but you were actually looking for something someone else said in the same scene, you can't really do that here.

Just a thought. Again, great work. Not criticising or anything. Just wanted to put my idea out there.

[Count Casimir]

Erm, not to attempt to be snide, but you could just look through the comic archives. I don't think there's a search function, but it couldn't be too hard.

[King Mir]

I think the best way to do this would be to write a transcript of the whole comic, with indication of who said each line. Then it would be easy to get stats on word count for each person, automated translation, and search capabilities.

For example with a transcript like this:

--Page 38--
Kat=Time for bed!
Kat=Night night
Annie=Sleep Well
NarratorAnnie=Later that night...

You could get the word count of Kat with "grep "^Kat=" transcript|wc -w" on any unix based system. (or on Windows with CygWin. )

But I can't discount the work that's already here. It's cool to have statistics like this.

[nikita]

Like that time in the xkcd forum when someone estimated the current comic to be the largest.
Then someone posted the output of some unix command that displayed the ten largest comics and their name based on pixel count.

By the way: ohnorobot.com/ Of course it would not help with word counts, only with transcription.

[preus]

If any of you guys want to use my document to make transcripts, go ahead. Godspeed to you.
But that is not my quest. I'm sticking to my original mission statement.

[preus]

Coyote is 31 words away from surpassing Reynardine, btw.

[preus]

NO WAY! This cannot be a coincidence! In strip 500, Coyote said exactly 31 words! Beautiful!

[dork457]

Man this sure is a thread alright

[nikita]

Your list might actually become useful: gunnerkrigg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=600&page=7#22239

[Goatmon]

Funny how Coyote has one of the highest wordcounts, even though he's been in less the half of the comic.