Using Unique Words

[MetaBob]

Jeesh, are people still jabbering on about this?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Jeesh, are people still jabbering on about this?

Now Jabberwok would have got old Lewis Carroll a unique word, there's no doubt about that.

 

[mordbrand]

I tried writing a story with unconventional words. It seems that most of the critics exclusively focused on the words versus the content of the story.

 

[gordo12]

Jeesh, are people still jabbering on about this?

Curious people! And that's a good thing.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sorry, Millie, I think it was those 12 ghostwritten novels you claim--and the 50 ghostwritten short stories even more. Novel ghosting isn't much of a thing anymore, especially by someone with the skills set you show, and I doubt you have any idea how much time/effort has to go into ghosting anything. And ghostwriting short stories in volume isn't real. This all has a "trying much too hard" sense to it. I'm thinking a sophomore in high school here. That's the vibe I'm getting. Best of luck to you.

I’m not your enemy. We should be able to have differences of opinions without resorting to demining the other person.

I’m 31 years old and soon to be 32. I am assuming you are older than me, which is irrelevant. You are more prolific than I, that is for sure. Whatever your vibe is, you don’t have a clue as to who I am or what my life has been. Even if you have read one of my bio’s out there, you still don’t know me.

I’m not getting involved in a tit-for-tat discussion, and I’m not going to resort to any kind of personalized animosity. I’m not going to exchange barbs with you. I don’t claim to be a great or even good writer. I’m a competent one, and for here, Literotica, I write what I want.

I’m confident we have many things in common. I’m equally positive we have many things and experiences that the other person hasn’t enjoyed or suffered through. I have admitted, I must be mistaken about Grammarly’s unique word count.

Let us call a truce because you can shoot as many slings in my direction, but I’m not going to take aim at you.

 

[AlexBailey]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

EB wins my unique forum word of the day award!

....

You have heard of Stanley Kubrick, maybe? He had the sobriquet of "the world's greatest living director" whilst he was alive, and nobody has claimed the mantle since.

sobriquet
[ˈsōbrəˌkā, ˈsōbrəˌket]
NOUN
a person's nickname.
"she was a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet “Duchesse”"


I love discovering new words while reading, and it's hardly an inconvenience to look one up while reading on a digital device! Thanks for the free education.

 

[Specula]

Well, the USAnians often have different definitions of almost everything - honesty included.

 

[SimonDoom]

This thread is proof that in social media people have an unlimited capacity to make a debate keep going even when it's obviously settled.

Come on, there's no question about what "unique" means in this particular context. As Bramblethorn pointed out, if you don't believe people here just ask Grammarly.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Thanks to dyslexia I often have totally unique words. Usually I catch them and fix them before I hit send or submit, often I don't. Between grammar and spell checking, Grammarly, and AutoCrit if fix most of those errors. Captain has been a particular bane to me, often captian is the way I put it down and I think I've done so, so often, Grammarly added it its list of ignore words. When I read the word that is spelt the wrong way, it still appears the right way, to me. Which of course, should be a clue it's wrong. They have glasses for this, I have glasses for this, just don't always wear them.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

. . .last week, I wrote 57,635 words with 84 alerts for mistakes.

But the stat that concerns me: unique words.

3,159 unique words. Higher than 98% of users.

Do you pay much attention to issues like that, or am I overthinking things?

I think it says more about the other Grammarly users than it says about you. Last week, Grammarly reported checking a mere 1153 words and I was more productive than 66% of Grammarly users!

Also, after using 542 words, I apparently used more unique words than
73% of Grammarly users. Darn low bar, if you ask me.

On a week when I wrote over 28K words, I matched your "more unique than" score of 98%.

Again, I think it's a lower bar to best. Probably could have gotten close with only 10K words, too.