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Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts) Wed May 7, 2014, 01:43 PM May 2014

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Not about fiction but words

I thought this was interesting and felt people here would love words enough to find this interesting as well.

25 of the Happiest Words in English

Isabel Kloumann and a group of mathematicians at the University of Vermont published a paper in 2012 on positivity in the English language. They took just over 10,000 of the most frequent English words from a variety of sources (Twitter, Google Books, The New York Times, and music lyrics) and had people rate them on a 9 point scale from least happy to most happy, collecting 50 independent ratings per word. In the resulting dataset, available here, "laughter" comes in at number 1 in perceived happiness, and "terrorist" comes last.

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Not about fiction but words (Original Post) Goblinmonger May 2014 OP

Also at the link libodem May 2014 #1

Well, I can't argue with "laughter" as a really happy word. Curmudgeoness May 2014 #2

libodem

(19,288 posts)

1. Also at the link

Reply to Goblinmonger (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 02:39 PM

May 2014

Origin of ten great insults. A most enlightening read.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

2. Well, I can't argue with "laughter" as a really happy word.

Reply to Goblinmonger (Original post)

Wed May 7, 2014, 08:36 PM

May 2014

I find it odd that "warmth" is #375 and "welcome" is #449, but "easier" is #159.

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