Word of the Week (Oct 5, 2008)
I’m starting a new game (let’s see if I can keep this up)!
Every week I will use Mechanical Turk to ask 100 people for their “word of the week”—whatever seems to capture their experiences for the week—and then create a tag cloud. It would be interesting if themes emerged from week to week that distinguish themselves from each other. For example, this last week we’ve had a financial crisis and (near) economic meltdown. The tag cloud does express this to an extent, although some words could be generic enough to apply to any week (depending on your experience.) My favorite word in this batch is: holycrapadicious.
aggravating albedo awesome bailout bildungsroman bodacious bored categorical change codify confused corruption crisis depressing discombobulated disjointed emotional exasperating exhausting faith finally flipping flout fortitude grief hectic holycrapadicious humdrum hypocrisy impervious integrity nauseous obama overwhelmed perquisite positive pulchritudinous reflection relax retrograde scintillating skank sleepy spiritual stabby sweet tiring vexatious whatever whirlwind
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