Not sure. I'm still looking at that. Meanwhile, I did to a comparison of the RN to the top 50 most commonly used words, and to McM's book.
Top 10 most commonly used words (e.g. the, a, and, in, to) :
frequency/pct in RN: 93 words/25.1%
frequency/pct in L&L RN + 2nd note: 97 words/23.8%
frequency/pct in McM's book: 21404 words/20.4%
Top 50 most commonly used words (e.g. we, when, your, can, said):
frequency/pct in RN: 164 words/44.3%
frequency/pct in L&L RN + 2nd note: 166 words/40.8%
frequency/pct in McM's book: 32943 words/31.5%
Top 100 most commonly used words (e.g. could, people, my, than):
frequency/pct in RN: 194 words/52.4%
frequency/pct in L&L RN + 2nd note: 188 words/46.2%
frequency/pct in McM's book: 36956 words/35.3%
Top 1000 most commonly used words (e.g. island, week, less, machine):
frequency/pct in RN: 267 words/72.2%
As you can see, the RN author drew words from the common word pool the great majority of the time, whereas McM author drew from the common word pool less than half the time.
I'm sure its a coincidence, but the fact is an ESL would tend to draw from that pool.
Hi Hotyh.
TY for compiling those figures. :blowkiss:
Very interesting.
Both the JBR rn and the L&L resemble a formal letter format, maybe the cordiality, tone? of that type of speech pattern and the insructive nature of the note is a function of the distribution; where 1/2 of the 'dialect' draws from that 'common word' pool.
coincidence? still of note, that the JBR rn is on the high end of the distibution.
ESL?
Hotyh?
would you say the rn writer is monosyllabic?
or
uses a language in which most 'words predominantly consist of a single syllable'?