Words, words, words
Bookworm on Apr 26 2006 at 2:11 pm | Filed under: Silly Stuff
You know Eliza Doolittle's complaint in "My Fair Lady": "Words words, words, I'm so sick of words." I thought of this when I saw this snippet that Congressman Tom Tancredo posted on his website. (Thanks for the tip, Kevin.)
Pythagorean theorem: 24 words
The Lord's Prayer: 66 words
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words
The 10 Commandments: 179 words
The Gettysburg Address: 286 words
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words
U.S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words
In my considered opinion, there are few things more foul that the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.
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This reminds me of the way Grammatik would do its grammar checks. It would compare what you wrote to a Hemingway short story, the Gettysburg address and to an insurance policy.
I used to rank with the insurance policy way too often. I think that there was a direct correlation between the insurance policy and a disproportionate number of prepositions. I think that taught me to reduce my dependence on prepositions.
Non-linear mathematics.