On Verbs (all stats cont.)

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On Verbs (cont.)

 Another thing I apparently have a thing for are contrasts. The smooth/hard, pain/pleasure kind of couplets. I'm suspecting the touchy-feely fetish is to blame here as well. And I also seem to be rather impatient and demanding girl, scoring 80 'more', 89 'again', 25 'need' and 24 'desperate'.

What do you mean I can't have ice-cream for breakfast?

Adjectives (other)			Nouns (other)			Adverbs etc (other)
close	103		word	48		down	144
soft	89		pleasure	39		again	89
deep	65		sensation	36		more	80
hard	64		pain	34		around	70
slow	43		thought	33		inside	53
long	42		wand	26		between	31
quick	37		need	25		along	30
firm	32		passion	24		across	29
smooth	27		potion	22		suddenly	28
low	26		another	21		slightly	26
wet	25		desire	21		together	26
desperate	24		silence	21		beneath	21
tight	24		blood	19		behind	19
sensitive	22		urgency	19		enough	19
fast	21		contact	16		gently	12
intense	20		end	16		utterly	12
small	16		heat	16
warm	16		inch	16
deadly	15		tension	16
better	14		anger	15
complete	14		position	15
final	14		release	15
actual	12		spot	14
incredible	12		water	14
cold	11		effect	13
heavy	11		power	13
beautiful	10		act/activity	12
different	10		emotion	12
free	10		fire	12
good	10		rhythm	12
sure	10		sex	12
			answer	10
			edge	10
			memory	10

And finally, there's the kinky streak.
Oh, goody, I thought I had one of those on backorder.

PLACES TO GET IT ON
(Steam it up on/in/against a...)

25 -- door
23 -- bed
20 -- floor
17 -- wall
10 -- chair
10 -- classroom
10 -- (train) compartment
  7 -- room
  6 -- corridor
  6 -- mirror
  6 -- pillow
  5 -- library
  5 -- table
  3 -- hallway

Er. Yes.

Well, they're obviously where my characters get it on. Not me. At least not all of them (3 whole cases of unknown territory--and no, I'm not saying which :-))

And I think we'll leave it there. If you want to see the whole list, click the LJ-cuts below. Now I just need to convince my dear friend and fanfic accomplice lariopefic to post hers. :-D

In the meantime... Anyone else up for sharing and comparing?
Cheers
/Red 

On Verbs

Hello y'all,

A pretty long time ago, theohara did this funny, funny post on word choices in fanfic. If you haven't read it, you definitely should. ( http://theohara.livejournal.com/203973.html)

Anyway, ever since she did that, I've been wanting to check my own stories. And yesterday, I finally did.

 So, I copy-pasted all my love scenes (along with some of the heavier make-out sessions) into a nice, long text file and ran it through Word Count Machine 2.5.1 (which was a bit crappy since I was only willing to get the free demo version and didn't get the nice export to Excell feature). Out came all sorts of interesting information.

For easier view, I combined entries for similar words (hand/hands, eye/eyes/eyelash/eyebrow, touch/touched/touching and so on), took away all the grammatical ones (such as 'the') and excluded all entries that appeared less than 10 times. Since there were about 3300 different words in my search, I narrowed it down into categories as well.

Ok, here we go!

BODIES & PARTS
(words related to...)

401 -- Mouth, breath, voice
363 -- Hands, fingers, arms
354 -- Face and neck
259 -- Whole body, skin
150 -- Eyes
116 -- Upper body
110 -- Legs and feet
  19 -- Naughty parts

So, yes. 92,7% of all nouns relating to the body are waist-up. Guess we can leave the whole 'ass or face'-debate for solved, then. This is actually rather scary in all its Freudian revelations. And while we're on the revealing track...

SEDUCTION OF THE SENSES
(Verbs related to the 5 senses + 1)

1935 -- Touchy feely
  537 -- Taste, speech and oral sensations
  363 -- Mental seduction
  152 -- Eye candy
    30 -- Hearing
      0 -- Smelly stuff

When putting together this table, I actually went "Wait a second, isn't there a fifth sense? I know the mental aspect isn't officially one..." Guess this explains why I have no problem what so ever to have sex in the morning after a big party when everyone is smelly and hungover. Yes, well.

An ex-boyfriend once said (quite amazed, apparently he hadn't run into a creature such as me before) that I was incredibly 'tactille' ('tactile' in English?), i.e. that I explored the world by touching stuff. This is pretty true, I do touch everything, from velvet drapes to weird-looking pebbles on the ground. Still, the 64,7% leaves me a bit shocked. :-)

To be continued in the next post as this is too heavy for LJ to handle...