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ALISDAIRPARK

pity I missed this, we need to come up with something simple and repetitive, so that the basic sentances are un-complex, but the passage is long enough to be submitted.

**Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 6:49 pm

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Rogi Ocnorb

I have another theory.
That tonights batch cycle will yield 1 for poison.
I base that on "modifying" words in the text.
I was never an English star, but they appear to be various types of modifying words. Adjectives, adverbs, etc.
Batch 0:
Haggard, Oppressive, Clear, Blue, Impassive, Improbable
Batch 1:
Grisly
Batch 2:
Begging, Gaunt, Haggard, Restless, Vast, Merciless
Batch 3:
Unexciting, Impalpable, Great, Great, Sickly, Tepid
Batch 4:
Mistily, Shuddering, Inconceivable, Sepulchral, Infamous, Unwholesome, Insignificant, Silly
Batch 5:
Faint, Human, Heavy, Night
Batch 6:
Vast, Barbarous, How, Hardly, Failing, Sandy
Batch 7:
Tremulously

Though "Coming" and "Dark" could be added based on some of the previous hits using this theory.

Anybody who knows the rules of English and can explain what I'm seeing better than I am would be appreciated.
Then again, I could just be blowing smoke.

EDIT: I'm changing my guess to 2, adding "Coming" to the list, proper.

**Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 8:07 pm

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tallerbird

If we are going to submit our own text for the next batch then i think it should be this:

**Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 8:29 pm

carlwebb

I like Rogi's theory. I propose Batch 6 (from Frankenstein) with the word "death" near the end replaced with "life". This seems like it might let us test several letter-counting theories as well as semantic ones based on negative words.

**Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 10:01 pm

tallerbird

Results from Batch 7

One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, 'I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to murmur, 'Oh, nonsense!'

Poison= 0 Parasites= 3

Synchronicity - 6 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Idorusan - 6 & 4
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
lpilker - 1 & 3
0/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
Wojcik - 4 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
mnemo - 6 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gandalf112 - 5 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gaj90027 - 3 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
carlwebb - 0 & 0
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
rkm333 - 1 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
kinsey - 2 & 7
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
sgresso - 10 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tjray - 9 & 8
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tallerbird - 5 & 3
0/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
Tesseract - 7 & 6
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Sylvia - 3 & 3
0/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
cjknight06 - 8 & 10
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
MizEmotional - 10 & 11
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Silverkun - 11 & 12
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
safari180 - 11 & 8
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Svengoolie - 12 & 13
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
ilikepucks - 13 & 14
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct

It looks like some others had the correct answer for parasites but they have been listed as being wrong. We are waiting for a response from kevin about this.
Edit: Looks like kevin fixed the problem

tallerbird

Batch 8 text

Alice began to tire of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister read, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what use does a book have,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?

Today's text was submitted by me. It should help us figure out if this has anything to do with E-Prime. I think it does but i haven't been able to come up with a theory that fits in with the previous answers yet. If this has something to do with E-Prime and poison and parasites are referring to things in the text that don't fit with the E-Prime theory then it should give us the answer 0,0. I may be on the wrong track with this but a least we should find out now.

**Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 9:22 am

vikingofmars · Greenhorn Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 5 Location: New York

tallerbird said:

**Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 3:23 pm

tallerbird

**Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 4:02 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Was the parasite count 4, today?

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 4:16 am

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thelsdj · Boot Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 52 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Results from Batch 8

Alice began to tire of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister read, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what use does a book have,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?

Poison=0 Parasites=4

* Synchronicity - 0 & 1
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* jkaufman - 5 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* carlwebb - 1 & 0
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* tallerbird - 0 & 0
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* ilikepucks - 0 & 4
1/3 & 1/3 Observations Correct
* Svengoolie - 2 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* Wojcik - 3 & 7
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* brad7924 - 4 & 3
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* tipsila - 0 & 2
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* vikingofmars - 6 & 6
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* kinsey - 4 & 0
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* tjray - 0 & 0
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* Chattonne - 0 & 0
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* Lola66 - 0 & 3
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* sgresso - 1 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* cjknight06 - 7 & 8
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* gandalf112 - 8 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* gaj90027 - 9 & 10
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* confoundo - 10 & 11
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* thelsdj - 11 & 12
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* Idorusan - 1 & 2
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* Sylvia - 2 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
* Silverkun - 12 & 13
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 5:19 am

LatentMoths · Unfettered Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 10:23 am

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Rogi Ocnorb

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 1:45 pm

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LatentMoths · Unfettered Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Actually, I wouldn't change much from what you had a few posts up. Smile

Batch 0:
Haggard, Oppressive, Clear, Blue, Impassive, Improbable
Batch 1:
Grisly
Batch 2:
Begging, Gaunt, Haggard, Restless, Vast, Merciless
Batch 3:
Unexciting, Impalpable, Great, Great, Sickly, Tepid
Batch 4:
~~Mistily~~, Shuddering, Inconceivable, Sepulchral, little, Infamous, Unwholesome, Insignificant, Silly
Mistily is an adverb so I didn't count it.
Batch 5:
Faint, Human, Heavy, Night
Batch 6:
Vast, Barbarous, many, ~~How~~, ~~Hardly~~, Failing, Sandy, being
Batch 7:
~~Tremulously~~
This is an adverb and so I didn't count it. This passage has no "adjectives".
Batch 8:
No "adjectives"

Now I'm not an expert, but from all of the reading I did, words like no, few, ten, day's etc. that are used to describe how much of something are considered adjectives also. But the only way to get these answers to coincide is to leave those words out. So there ya go. This is the list I used to get the poison answers to work.

I'm welcome to any discussion or opinions on this matter as it is a team effort. Very Happy

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 2:55 pm

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Macavity

Okay, I'm not sure which batch this is, but here's the text:

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 4:20 pm

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Lucy · Decorated Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 163

In Batch 2, I don't think 'begging' is an adjective, but in this case the word 'exhausted' might be....meaning...well...nothing much because substituting one in for the one out means that everything still holds true. From what I've looked at so far, I like the theory!

edit: Also, I think in batch 5, "night-air" is a noun--the night air is heavy, the air is not night--however, countering that, 'asleep' could be considered verb or adjective, and I'm pretty sure 'awake' in this context is an adjective. In B6, I don't think "being" can be an adjective.

Bah, I'm losing it. Am I making sense?

**Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 4:39 pm