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Re: Verne's longest novel

From: Craig Weatherhill <craig~at~agantavas.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:56:24 +0100
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Don't forget that, in L'Ile Mysterieuse, significant portions of
Nemo's life story are missing from certain translations, and perhaps
there are further editings, so word counts are best achieved by using
the original Hetzel publications.

Craig



On 23 Me 2011, at 15:49, James Keeline wrote:

> It seems to me that this sort of comparison can vary wildly
> according to the source. Are we talking about well-edited French
> texts or which translations? Do the electronic files have stray
> data such as page numbers and running headings? These could make a
> difference in the "counts".
>
> In the same way, page count would vary wildly by edition, whether
> illustrations count in the page numbering, etc.
>
> You probably need to name exactly which versions of the files you
> are "counting" and their source.
>
> James D. Keeline
> _____
>
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>
> From: Ralf Tauchmann <ralf.tauchmann~at~t-online.de>
> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Sent: Sun, May 22, 2011 11:36:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Verne's longest novel
>
> "Christian Sánchez" <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar> schrieb:
> Grant: 209,825 words.
>
> IM: 207,802.
>
> Sandorf: 156,241.
> Dear Christian, dear all,
>
> my textcount software (TextCount 6.1) gives the following result
> (with the "word" count not referring to "real" words, but words
> longer than 8 characters are counted as two words) :
>
> File
> Characters
> Words
> IleMysterieuse.doc
> 1.222.522
> 233.013
> Grant.doc
> 1.203.413
> 227.768
> Sandorf.doc
> 1.119.885
> 213.431
> TOTAL
> 4.412.990
> 839.493
>
> Results of the Microsoft Word statistics (characters incl. spaces --
> and words as "real" words):
>
> ILE MYSTERIEUSE:
> 1,214,119 characters
> 201,625 words
>
> GRANT:
> 1,198,583 characters
> 198,452 words
>
> SANDORF
> 1,120,201 characters
> 187,731 words
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ralf
>

--
Craig Weatherhill

Received on Mon 23 May 2011 - 17:56:33 IDT

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