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Msg# 4920

Word counting Posted by obsidianjj July 02, 2005 - 19:09:37 Topic ID# 4920

Hi,

I joined the list a few days ago and have started writing some
reviews.

But now I'm a bit confused as to how the words are counted. I started
to write a little Review and saved it. I got a page where the number
of words was listed, but it had roughtly about 100 words more than I
could count on my own. I noticed it because I was interrupted and had
written about 20 words. I was surprised that my little sentence was
supposed to have that many words(123).

Any explanations?

Chris

Msg# 4921

Re: Word counting Posted by Larian Elensar July 02, 2005 - 19:35:12 Topic ID# 4920

It doesn't count words, it counts *characters* So each letter counts for 1.

--- obsidianjj <grzonka@adelphia.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I joined the list a few days ago and have started writing some
> reviews.
>
> But now I'm a bit confused as to how the words are counted. I started
> to write a little Review and saved it. I got a page where the number
> of words was listed, but it had roughtly about 100 words more than I
> could count on my own. I noticed it because I was interrupted and had
> written about 20 words. I was surprised that my little sentence was
> supposed to have that many words(123).
>
> Any explanations?
>
> Chris
>
>
>

Msg# 4922

Re: Word counting Posted by Marta Layton July 02, 2005 - 19:41:19 Topic ID# 4920

Hi Chris,

On 2 Jul 2005, at 20:09, obsidianjj wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I joined the list a few days ago and have started writing some
> reviews.
>
> But now I'm a bit confused as to how the words are counted. I started
> to write a little Review and saved it. I got a page where the number
> of words was listed, but it had roughtly about 100 words more than I
> could count on my own. I noticed it because I was interrupted and had
> written about 20 words. I was surprised that my little sentence was
> supposed to have that many words(123).
>
> Any explanations?
>
> Chris
>

The count that you're seeing isn't the word count; it's actually the
character count. MEFA comments are scored based on the number of
characters they contain, not counting spaces.

So twenty words might roughly be 120 characters -- that would be six
characters a word, which seems reasonable.

Marta
*****
Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis
of Assisi

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Msg# 4923

Re: Word counting Posted by Chris Grzonka July 02, 2005 - 19:54:38 Topic ID# 4920

Duh, I should learn to read what is on the paper and not substitute with
what I think is there<g>.

Thanks to everyone who answered so quickly. It makes much more sense now.

Chris

Msg# 4924

Re: Word counting Posted by Silver Wolf101 July 03, 2005 - 1:02:11 Topic ID# 4920

Was it the number of characters you were looking at, rather than words?

>From: "obsidianjj" <grzonka@adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
>To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [MEFAwards] Word counting
>Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:09:35 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
>I joined the list a few days ago and have started writing some
>reviews.
>
>But now I'm a bit confused as to how the words are counted. I started
>to write a little Review and saved it. I got a page where the number
>of words was listed, but it had roughtly about 100 words more than I
>could count on my own. I noticed it because I was interrupted and had
>written about 20 words. I was surprised that my little sentence was
>supposed to have that many words(123).
>
>Any explanations?
>
>Chris
>
>

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