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I'm becoming quite enamored of this new rating system, and I shall probly push it, oh, every time I see any other system, at least.Hmm. While yours is a goodly one, I think something like a Google PageRank system is needed. Using a semantic database like WordNet ( link), you can probably measure things like - nyms and numbers of definitions and how words link to one another. I will work on it in my copious free time and get back to you. (It will, of course, be open source.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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da, I don't think you've yet grasped the meaning of a OneLook rating of 10; that is, much less obscure than 3.
p.s. - I'm becoming quite enamored of this new rating system, and I shall probly push it, oh, every time I see any other system, at least. Again forgive me, of course your system varies from mine in that respect but mine is simpler and more fun. My issue is simply to promote the use of the Type-2. Although I find the -3 Today's Word interesting it's unlikely many participants will then go ahead and start using it on a regular basis so would hope Anu might take up my cudgel and concentrate on the -2
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>concentrate on the -2
I think, in all candor, this is a vain hope. Anu has been at this for a long time and I think he's become a little jaded with quotidian words, and I've observed his selections trending ever lower on the onelook scale. (he even subscribes to the wwftd daily word.)
>is simpler and more fun.
as I've detailed above, this is only your opinion, on both points. but hey, you could undertake a poll; i.e., become a poll bearer. heh.
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OMG--again! YOU made a play on words?! 
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Dale, since you want to rate words I'd think you'd jump at a more objective rating system. Your 1,2,3 system is simpler on first view but too easy to oversimplify, like the old comments about there being only 2 types of people in the world. Because it's based on your personal impression of the word and its popularity it can't take into account regionalisms, professional differences etc.
As for Anu sticking to more accessible words - where would be the fun in that?
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... the old comments about there being only 2 types of people in the world. Nuh-uh. There's 3 types of people in the world: those that count and those that don't count.
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There's 3 types of people in the world: those that count and those that don't count.
Nope. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who count in binary and those who don't.
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everybody counts, it's just that some people can't.
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(he even subscribes to the wwftd daily word.) Tiring as are acronyms, I gave myself a good chuckle when I quickly read that as the "wtf" daily word... I think I'll start that one myself. First one: atokous (and no, it's not Yiddish for your butt...); it's for Dale :0)
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