Month: November 2020

Using relative word frequencies to make older sentences sound slightly more modern was interesting, but there’s no reason the process has to run only one way. We can use the same technique to make modern sentences sound slightly more gothic…

One fun, if slightly silly, thing we can do with word frequencies is to “normalize” sentences by replacing low frequency words with more common synonyms, basically removing the unique style of the author and replacing it with the most bland…

I recently compared Mary Shelly’s word choices for Frankenstein to the average word frequencies found across an average of all modern-ish (1990-2005) books and discovered dozens upon dozens of “unusual” words that helped shape the unique tone of her story….

A large part of a book’s sense of style comes from the words the author chooses to use. Was the evening sky scarlet, crimson or red? Did the children laugh with delight or chuckle with glee? Was the sailor depressed,…