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Title: How many times "insane" is said in the series
Post by: Quaf on September 21, 2018, 10:57:54 PM

Quote from: u/soulraider-116

Now I want to know how often "insane" was used...

Hey there! I'm back with Exhibit B: quaf really has no life

Notes:
The data was collected from the unofficial Animorphs ebooks, and includes insane and its variants i.e. insanely and insanity
There were some instances where other characters narrated that Marco said "insane" at a different time, if this was a clear quotation I gave that to Marco if not I just added it to the narrators count
To interact with the charts go into the spreadhsheet (they are just images in this post)

EDIT: I realised that from books 33-54 I searched the ebooks for "insane" rather than "insan" so "insanity" wouldn't of been counted for those. Oh well.

Here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HPHrpU71v9ia-FF_WROnByuLcfxudQ8wTEtJWh95cv4/edit?usp=sharing) is a doc with all the quotes
 Here  (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mBXUor3rJBosMy4ZWnsGd1ftWHzP7_FqoVzFbo8FUUg/edit?usp=sharing) is a spreadsheet with the data for your viewing pleasure

Graph time!
(https://i.imgur.com/N6FxyYS.png)
Book 16 had the highest word count with 12
There's definitly a decrease as the series goes on, probably the absurdity of alien invasion becoming normalised.

(https://i.imgur.com/asz5oBM.png)

Marco (gee what a surprise) took the lead with a whopping 91 mentions of the word, either in dialogue or narration. He really needs to expand his vocabulary.

(https://i.imgur.com/06ixWda.png)

It is also interesting to note a lot of it is internalised. Something something psychology of war.

(https://i.imgur.com/4VScUKh.png)
INSANE I TELL YOU! INSANE!


(https://i.imgur.com/RcfWQlY.png)

Title: Re: How many times "insane" is said in the series
Post by: RYTX on September 22, 2018, 08:39:03 AM

Great work, I love it.
Love how Marco says it almost every book, but when Rachel and Tobias say it, they say it a lot

Title: Re: How many times "insane" is said in the series
Post by: guitarhero01234 on September 22, 2018, 10:03:43 AM

Quaf, you’re insane for doing this . . .

Title: Re: How many times "insane" is said in the series
Post by: esplin on September 24, 2018, 07:33:32 AM

This is pretty interesting.  I wonder if the authors knew they used this word so frequently. 

Title: Re: How many times "insane" is said in the series
Post by: DinosaurNothlit on October 07, 2018, 09:17:05 PM

Yeah, I was looking at that last graph, and noticed that there was a book where all the usage of "insane" was by Rachel, then looked a little closer and was like, "Oh, that was book 12, yeah that checks out."

Also . . . there's an "other" category?  Who besides Animorphs ever says "insane"?  Erek?  *checks graph*  Ah, book 17 and 19.  So Mr. Edelman and Aftran.

Title: Re: How many times "insane" is said in the series
Post by: Quaf on October 08, 2018, 04:48:14 AM

yeah if you go on the spreadsheet, in the 'other' column I added a note to say who said it. From memory there's Cassie's mum, Aldrea, Edelman, aftran, rachel's mum, taylor, and tom.

Also pretty sure out of the few instances Ax says it, he's saying 'what Marco would have said', which is pretty funny