Most Articulate Members

[skicdave]

Hope I spelled Articulate right...

Anyways here are the top most wordy members...

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Member Av Words/Post
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TheOctopus 123
Frankontour 107
BladeGirl 85
NH_tele 82
SkiStooge 82
2plankerknuckledraggerVTr 81
DRPHIDDLEPHOS 78
Mumster 76
Skilastucks 70
skicdave 69
RR 65
skidudeski 65
Bannick 61
notjustanotherboarder 61
ski&amp;ride 58
NtrentT 57
pepperdawg 56
Castlerock 54
elwood 53
DMC 50
M@ 49
targheehucker 48
Jolly_J 47
el-bagr 47
kfarrar 42
kmrnskier 37
NHski 31
pscopa 29
TenSeven 27

</pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif,arial">ThOctopus and Franko lead the way as top 'chatters' and have a lot to say!

[kmrnskier]

I always knew I was a simple person, and this just proves it!! :D

[Skilasnow]

You spelled articulate correctly but used it improperly. Wordiness doth not an articulate person make. Clarity and consice usage doth an articulate person make. Just because some of us flood our posts with words enormous or petite does make us clear or consice. Take Franko for example, he may indeed be the very spectre of articulation in french, but his english aint so hot though he uses lots of it.

KM, for example, is quite articulate, she uses brevity in perfect harmony with her vocabulary to make her point or add her commentary.

[M@]

I think 49 words in a post is the perfect number. More and you’re probably rambling a bit and might loose your reader’s attention. Less and you’re probably not providing anything useful to consider.

(Count this one)

M@

[kmrnskier]

Thank you Skilas :skifemcool:

[skicdave]

Yup patch, I knew it was kind of sort of wrong word... but heck this is T4T. Give me no points today for clean concise articulation.

This leads me to believe I need some new stats programs... maybe to check word quality, phrases and really big words like
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and my fav...
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[Skilasnow]

:D

supercalifrajalisticexpialidocious

Km, tis true...

her words flowed across the screen
like soft whipped cream
across a pie of pumpkin

her punctuation was consice
as was the crushed ice
in my ****tail of gin

Syntax be damned perhaps
but the software auto wraps
and one's heart will she win


OMG, a few more phrases and its a sonnet.

[kmrnskier]

Skilas - very NICE!! Once again, I thank you :o

[skidude]

M@:
I think 49 words in a post is the perfect number. More and you’re probably rambling a bit and might loose your reader’s attention. Less and you’re probably not providing anything useful to consider.

(Count this one)

M@ I think that it must count the quotes too, because I see no way all of my short useless posts make and average of 65 W.P.P.

[skicdave]

Very observant skidudes.

I wasn't going to get to fancy in writing that routine. But now you have me thinking... I know how to remove the words in quote. But then again its :survivor: night, a night I put aside my coding skills and indulge in 'reality tv'. Heck its no worse than watching :homer: , right?

[skidude]

Haha well if it is :homer: and :survivor: night does that mean there will be no chat? :confused:

[TenSeven]

Two ears, one mouth.

[RR]

touche

[pepperdawg]

:cutegirl: digs guys who average 56 words a post... :p

[skidude]

pepperdawg:
:cutegirl: digs guys who average 56 words a post... :p Throw that Number around and you got the coolest people on the mt ;)

[Mumster]

I thought Franko would be the wordiest.

[ILOVE2SKI]

skicdave ---- How did you get those numbers?

[skidude]

Sat there and read and counted all the words in the post.

The program there using counts up that stuff for you.

[skicdave]

I'm a unix nut. I just wrote a script to analyze all the postings. I didn't perfect it, but it does the job. :mandm:

[Castlerock]

Articulate or verbose?

[Skilasnow]

Castlerock:
Articulate or verbose? Ahhh, verbose!

My friend Peter bought a book from the under $3 bin last year that was all about hierarchy. Every order of things you could possibly want to know: chain of command from Private to General, order of gov't, order of measurements, order of poker hands, order of wine appelations in every country, order of dice rolls... One night we were looking through it after having many bottles of wine and we came across, Seven Levels of Drunkeness

1 Verbose
2 Grandiose
3 Amicose
4 Bellicose
5 Morose
6 Stuperous (or as we prefer, Stuperose)
7 Comatose

We decided that as group we stayed at Amicose for a while, then jumped to Stuperose and passed out.

[Mumster]

How did BG get listed at the top? :confused: She's concise - it must be a typo....

[elwood]

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[M@]

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[Skilasnow]

That's

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just

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silly

[Skilasnow]

:D

[NH_tele]

Must be those long, rambling TR that brought my average up...

[NH_tele]

That just got me thinking... If someone has twice as many posts as me, but only half as many average words per post, we've actually written the same amount on the forum??? Or do raw posts matter more?

Oh well, such is life. I went :happydog: today!

[TheOctopus]

I knew I was first-place at something, even if it is being a wind-bag. (See, I could have used "tops" for first-place, and "verbose" for "a wind-bag.")