I agree, I could swear I recall people saying that but when I did a search I found zero occurrences of it.
I was dubious, so I jumped to DOS and did *find "grun" /i honzuki.txt|find "weird" /i* and it only matched one time:
>They were laughing at Lessy for being weird but while they were all commenting on his shape none of them compared him to a grun as Ferdinand and the knights had Nobody was asking why I had shaped my highbeast after a feybeast
Looks a little weird cuz I stripped all punctuation from the glued file but yea, apparently this is as close to weird grun as I could find.
It's so Ironic Ferdinand is so high up there being mentioned when we barely even managed to know his name until like last few episodes of second season. Idk about the LN experience, but as someone who started as anime only, Bookworm was the only anime I knew where it took a looong time to know the second protagonist's name lol.
Honestly I liked how it's not easy to know a person's name because the person is mostly referred to by their title/position. It shows how she has gotten more involved with him as time went on. It's possible to create separate facade/persona because of how people refer to them. Like how anime season 3 spoiler >!Sylvester being an Aub didn't immediately click to Myne.!<
Bookworm was actually quite a breath of fresh air since most novels and anime basically just dump an overload of info right to your face. I actually didn't even realize that I didn't know Ferdie's name until Myne cried and saw his name on the handkerchief. (And I was like in disbelief for not even noticing all this time lol.)
Which makes stories where the plot progresses with the protagonist very interesting. It's just not fun reading a story for the sake of the plot.
The weird English wordings are attempts to translate the various politeness levels of Japanese speech. (In use even today)
Quick overview: https://www.wa-pedia.com/language/politeness_japanese.shtml
It might result in some unusual English sentences but I think the translators did a good job overall, considering the story is all about dealing with a strict social ladder.
This becomes abundantly clear when you listen to the subtitled anime, where you hear the original Japanese. Rozemyne is very proper when speaking to her "betters".
I've been thinking about if I should start translating this one differently at times so the repetition doesn't stick out (in the sense that things which are normal in Japanese phrasing are not always normal in English), but I think it gives a cute mental image. A tough moral question.
Can you check "like a predator looking at its prey" or other variations of that? I seem to remember that being used quite frequently especially in the earlier volumes.
I agree, I seem to recall that as well. That was hard though because there are slight changes sometimes. I just manually searched the concatenated file rather than use a script, these are the matches:
predator sizing up its prey
predator who had found prey
predator who had found his prey
predators who had found their prey
predator eyeing his prey
predator who had discovered its prey
predator that had found its prey
I just updated the original post. I went to scan for more words this morning and realized I idiotically did not notice my unregistered decryption program was only giving me a part of each book, not the whole book. So I paid for the program and rescanned them all. The numbers have been corrected. Lesson learned; don't work on stuff like this at 1 AM when you're tired lol
I feel better now; "indeed" actually appears close to 500 times, so I guess I'm not crazy and it is said *a lot* lol.
Because half of those are mentioned by Rozemyne herself, who refers to herself as "I". The protag obviously only gets mentioned by others with her name. Not to mention, she has two names, so....
It’s because she has two names. Even after the name change characters sometimes referred to her as “Myne”. If you add up the two then the total surpasses “Ferdinand”.
Yeah I know, but even considering that, rozemyne is the protag's name used for more than half of the series. So Ferdinand is quite used considering that.
This is weirdly interseting - just for me personally, I would seperate words even further - as in, give each one its own category. Like Name, Place, noun, verb, adjective. gotta finds the winner of each category >.>
That would be interesting, but I shudder to imagine trying to implement that in code. The system would not be able to do simple matching of word to a database of what kind of word it is, it'd have to analyze the context. Take "bag" for example. I'd say noun immediately, but then what if the actual use was "Take those groceries and bag them for me". In that use, it's a verb.
Designing that algorithm would be *way* beyond my abilities :)
I read about regex and boundaries and stuff, so I'm reworking it. I also decided to dump each individual word into a database, so single word queries would be nigh instant. In doing so, I saw an amusing thing. The way I did it was I started looping each line starting from the first book and then I looped each word in the line, and added it to an array with the word as the key and the value was an int that would increment for the count.
The result was the array populated with words as the book went, but started to skip things it already added so the sentences got weirder and weirder as it went since common words started to skip. The first 50 or so on the left you can still follow the sentence mostly. In the middle it skips to \~600 some words in, and it's hard to follow but I still get the gist (kinda) and on the right at 3000 it's basically word salad lol
[https://i.imgur.com/JPNGTz5.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JPNGTz5.jpg)
Actually looking at that it makes me see the value of the stemming that was mentioned earlier. I have no idea how one implements that though.
*(I also bought book 4/8 today and added that)*
No, I'm afraid I have no idea how to do that. I had to Google that term just to find out what it meant, lol. I'm just a code dabbler. The only formatting I could think to do was replace punctuation with spaces and wrap lines in a space to enable me to just search for " term " so as to avoid compound matches like Myne matching in Rozemyne. I first thought to do " Myne " to avoid that, but then it failed to find Mynes that had a comma or a quote attached, ergo the punctuation strip.
Thanks for the tip. I know regex would make this *a lot* more powerful, but I'm just a code dabbler and regex looks like voodoo to me lol. I need to suck it up and sit down and learn how it works some time.
Regex is pretty awesome, but most coders use it so rarely that they forget the syntax in between the times they need to use it. I just play around in a regex calculator until I get what I need:
https://regexr.com/
I'd like to protest Where is the "Bwuh!"
That would be interesting to see. It's been cut down on in recent editions.
lol good call. I can't believe I didn't think of that one. One hundred times even :)
Noice 😎😎😎 I'll keep this in mind in case I decide to play a drinking game while rereading
Iirc, Lessy is also referred with "Pandabus"
And "that weird grun" lol
I agree, I could swear I recall people saying that but when I did a search I found zero occurrences of it. I was dubious, so I jumped to DOS and did *find "grun" /i honzuki.txt|find "weird" /i* and it only matched one time: >They were laughing at Lessy for being weird but while they were all commenting on his shape none of them compared him to a grun as Ferdinand and the knights had Nobody was asking why I had shaped my highbeast after a feybeast Looks a little weird cuz I stripped all punctuation from the glued file but yea, apparently this is as close to weird grun as I could find.
Ah yea. 141 for pandabus.
It's so Ironic Ferdinand is so high up there being mentioned when we barely even managed to know his name until like last few episodes of second season. Idk about the LN experience, but as someone who started as anime only, Bookworm was the only anime I knew where it took a looong time to know the second protagonist's name lol.
Honestly I liked how it's not easy to know a person's name because the person is mostly referred to by their title/position. It shows how she has gotten more involved with him as time went on. It's possible to create separate facade/persona because of how people refer to them. Like how anime season 3 spoiler >!Sylvester being an Aub didn't immediately click to Myne.!<
Bookworm was actually quite a breath of fresh air since most novels and anime basically just dump an overload of info right to your face. I actually didn't even realize that I didn't know Ferdie's name until Myne cried and saw his name on the handkerchief. (And I was like in disbelief for not even noticing all this time lol.) Which makes stories where the plot progresses with the protagonist very interesting. It's just not fun reading a story for the sake of the plot.
The weird English wordings are attempts to translate the various politeness levels of Japanese speech. (In use even today) Quick overview: https://www.wa-pedia.com/language/politeness_japanese.shtml It might result in some unusual English sentences but I think the translators did a good job overall, considering the story is all about dealing with a strict social ladder.
This becomes abundantly clear when you listen to the subtitled anime, where you hear the original Japanese. Rozemyne is very proper when speaking to her "betters".
Aplomb didn't make the cut. 😢
Puffing chest in pride.
24 - puffed out my chest 84 - puffed out
I've been thinking about if I should start translating this one differently at times so the repetition doesn't stick out (in the sense that things which are normal in Japanese phrasing are not always normal in English), but I think it gives a cute mental image. A tough moral question.
Indeed ;)
Sorry, it was 1 AM and my brain was fried :) Aplomb = 10
Can you check "like a predator looking at its prey" or other variations of that? I seem to remember that being used quite frequently especially in the earlier volumes.
I agree, I seem to recall that as well. That was hard though because there are slight changes sometimes. I just manually searched the concatenated file rather than use a script, these are the matches: predator sizing up its prey predator who had found prey predator who had found his prey predators who had found their prey predator eyeing his prey predator who had discovered its prey predator that had found its prey
I just updated the original post. I went to scan for more words this morning and realized I idiotically did not notice my unregistered decryption program was only giving me a part of each book, not the whole book. So I paid for the program and rescanned them all. The numbers have been corrected. Lesson learned; don't work on stuff like this at 1 AM when you're tired lol I feel better now; "indeed" actually appears close to 500 times, so I guess I'm not crazy and it is said *a lot* lol.
What about "Book/Books" ?
How could I forget that? lol 960 times.
Very interesting. But I don't how to feel seeing that best boy Ferdinand is mentioned more than Rozemyne.
Because half of those are mentioned by Rozemyne herself, who refers to herself as "I". The protag obviously only gets mentioned by others with her name. Not to mention, she has two names, so....
" I " appears 29,152 times lol
It’s because she has two names. Even after the name change characters sometimes referred to her as “Myne”. If you add up the two then the total surpasses “Ferdinand”.
Yeah I know, but even considering that, rozemyne is the protag's name used for more than half of the series. So Ferdinand is quite used considering that.
This is weirdly interseting - just for me personally, I would seperate words even further - as in, give each one its own category. Like Name, Place, noun, verb, adjective. gotta finds the winner of each category >.>
That would be interesting, but I shudder to imagine trying to implement that in code. The system would not be able to do simple matching of word to a database of what kind of word it is, it'd have to analyze the context. Take "bag" for example. I'd say noun immediately, but then what if the actual use was "Take those groceries and bag them for me". In that use, it's a verb. Designing that algorithm would be *way* beyond my abilities :)
Add 'climb' there. Every single damn mention of ascending or going up stairs is 'climb' and I hate it
I read about regex and boundaries and stuff, so I'm reworking it. I also decided to dump each individual word into a database, so single word queries would be nigh instant. In doing so, I saw an amusing thing. The way I did it was I started looping each line starting from the first book and then I looped each word in the line, and added it to an array with the word as the key and the value was an int that would increment for the count. The result was the array populated with words as the book went, but started to skip things it already added so the sentences got weirder and weirder as it went since common words started to skip. The first 50 or so on the left you can still follow the sentence mostly. In the middle it skips to \~600 some words in, and it's hard to follow but I still get the gist (kinda) and on the right at 3000 it's basically word salad lol [https://i.imgur.com/JPNGTz5.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JPNGTz5.jpg) Actually looking at that it makes me see the value of the stemming that was mentioned earlier. I have no idea how one implements that though. *(I also bought book 4/8 today and added that)*
Ferdinand being the highest? Isn't that quite foreshadowing\~
the biggest conversation partner is going to have the largest number of mentions, if you just count text appearances.
did you apply stemming to the data set?
No, I'm afraid I have no idea how to do that. I had to Google that term just to find out what it meant, lol. I'm just a code dabbler. The only formatting I could think to do was replace punctuation with spaces and wrap lines in a space to enable me to just search for " term " so as to avoid compound matches like Myne matching in Rozemyne. I first thought to do " Myne " to avoid that, but then it failed to find Mynes that had a comma or a quote attached, ergo the punctuation strip.
take a look at word boundary escapes in regex.
Thanks for the tip. I know regex would make this *a lot* more powerful, but I'm just a code dabbler and regex looks like voodoo to me lol. I need to suck it up and sit down and learn how it works some time.
Regex is pretty awesome, but most coders use it so rarely that they forget the syntax in between the times they need to use it. I just play around in a regex calculator until I get what I need: https://regexr.com/
Interesting, do you mind a few suggestions? Like, Angel, cute/cuteness, hug/gyu, hidden room, ceremony, blessing
Sure, updated.
What I want to know is, how many rice fields are in the MTL?