{"id":83,"date":"2009-09-07T22:48:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-11-08T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T06:21:03","slug":"dune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2009\/09\/dune\/","title":{"rendered":"Dune"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the orig\u00adi\u00adnal Dune series. I\u2019m not so hot on the fol\u00adlowups. So I made a rough numer\u00adi\u00adcal analy\u00adsis to find out why.<\/p>\n

Occurances of the string \u2019 had \u2019 in Dune novels, grouped by author<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Book name<\/th>\nTotal word count<\/th>\nOccur\u00adances of \u2019 had \u2019<\/th>\nAver\u00adage no. of words
between occur\u00adances
(larg\u00ader is better)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Dune<\/td>\n204145<\/td>\n1085<\/td>\n188.152<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dune Mes\u00adsi\u00adah<\/td>\n75702<\/td>\n544<\/td>\n139.158<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chil\u00addren of Dune<\/td>\n149377<\/td>\n1201<\/td>\n124.377<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emper\u00ador of Dune<\/td>\n137410<\/td>\n1144<\/td>\n120.113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heretics of Dune<\/td>\n165154<\/td>\n2026<\/td>\n81.517<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chap\u00adter\u00adhouse Dune<\/td>\n143949<\/td>\n1258<\/td>\n114.426<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total for orig\u00adi\u00adnal series<\/th>\n875737<\/td>\n7258<\/td>\n120.658<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
House Atrei\u00addes<\/td>\n206634<\/td>\n2233<\/td>\n92.536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
House Harkon\u00adnen<\/td>\n210188<\/td>\n2378<\/td>\n88.388<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hunters of Dune<\/td>\n146500<\/td>\n1958<\/td>\n74.821<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sand\u00adworms of Dune<\/td>\n144501<\/td>\n1734<\/td>\n83.333<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul of Dune<\/td>\n158244<\/td>\n1948<\/td>\n81.234<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total for new series<\/th>\n866067<\/td>\n10251<\/td>\n84.486<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sum\u00adma\u00adtion:<\/strong> Orig\u00adi\u00adnal Dune series had on aver\u00adage a third less \u2019 had \u2018s throughout.<\/p>\n

Now I know why it felt like every third sen\u00adtence was a rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion. And usu\u00adal\u00adly of some\u00adthing that sound\u00aded more inter\u00adest\u00ading than the cur\u00adrent novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love the orig\u00adi\u00adnal Dune series. I\u2019m not so hot on the fol\u00adlowups. So I made a rough numer\u00adi\u00adcal analy\u00adsis to find out why. Occur\u00adances of the string \u2019 had \u2019 in Dune nov\u00adels, grouped by author Book name Total word count Occur\u00adances of \u2019 had \u2019 Aver\u00adage no. of words between occur\u00adances (larg\u00ader is bet\u00adter) Dune 204145 1085 188.152 Dune [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}