I’m starting a new game (let’s see if I can keep this up)!
Every week I will use Mechanical Turk to ask 100 people for their “word of the week”—whatever seems to capture their experiences for the week—and then create a tag cloud. It would be interesting if themes emerged from week to week that distinguish themselves from each other. For example, this last week we’ve had a financial crisis and (near) economic meltdown. The tag cloud does express this to an extent, although some words could be generic enough to apply to any week (depending on your experience.) My favorite word in this batch is: holycrapadicious.
aggravating albedo atrophy awesome bailout bildungsroman bliss boboliscious bodacious bored brainstorm bur categorical challenging change chromatography codify colloquial confused corruption crisis depressing discombobulated disjointed dogs draft easy emotional exasperating exhausting faith fantastic finally flagellate flipping flout focus fortitude friendly galapagos grief healthy hectic holycrapadicious humdrum hypocrisy impervious indestructable inexorable integrity money nauseous obama ordinary overwhelmed perpetual perquisite perseverance popping positive pulchritudinous rainy reflection register relax retrograde sad scintillating skank sleepy snap spiritual stabby stressful superlative sweet tiring umbrage vegas vexatious whatever whirlwind
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More than one person said “pulchritudinous”. Holy crap.
Also, you should consider add these words each week to a new Wordie.org list — just for fun.
I can’t believe more than one picked “pulchritudinous” either!?
Weekly wordie lists is a good idea. Thanks!
this is such an awesome idea! I’m really excited to see where this goes, and what turns up. I think the data will be fun both on a weekly and a monthly scope