Happy new year!
Short version: I tried to plot the word frequency used in lyrics. It looks like this:
Just like in literature, the distribution is quite exponential.
You can also find the raw data and the length distribution in the slide show 🙂
This discussion came up when I was chatting with a friend. Leaving out the technical reasons, why do some people like writing and some people like typing? How about writing on iPad?
And trying to write a journal paper now, sometimes my mind just escape to think about the behaviour of writing rather than what I’m writing now…
It’s harder to erase on paper. My friend says.
I didn’t notice this before, but it’s very true. It’s probably many people’s reason to use paper. Mine also includes the low cost, the creativity given by the physical world, the safety of device-free decoding, and the pure satisfication of joggin up muscle memory of tracing lines and curves on paper.
For communication purposes, I use standardised typing. Either it’s communication across time or across space, the standards deliver the information more efficiently.
Writing on iPad is the newest here. It saves space, creates data. Similar to write + photo. Great for post processing.
It’s a matter of habits; it’s a matter of encoding + decoding. It always gets complicated when there’s a new tool, a new paradigm.
What are you using for writing? And which one do you prefer?
