#201 V̶λλ
Does Grace talk differently in Space than he does on Earth?
Grace has roughly equal amounts of speech in the two settings: 8,596 tokens in the Space sections and 8,355 tokens in the Earth sections.
Words key to Grace in Space (overused compared to his Earth speech):
| Space | Earth | LL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| yes | 91 | 10 | 72.5 |
| Taumoeba | 40 | 0 | 54.3 |
| Rocky | 24 | 0 | 32.6 |
| human | 32 | 3 | 27.2 |
| xenonite | 18 | 0 | 24.5 |
| Adrian | 18 | 0 | 24.5 |
| sleep | 22 | 1 | 23.1 |
| gravity | 16 | 0 | 21.7 |
| ship | 36 | 7 | 20.6 |
Words key to Grace on Earth (overused compared to his Space speech):
| Space | Earth | LL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| energy | 1 | 30 | 35.0 |
| sun | 0 | 20 | 28.3 |
| people | 3 | 26 | 21.6 |
| she | 1 | 18 | 19.0 |
| he | 0 | 13 | 18.4 |
| like | 11 | 40 | 18.4 |
| that | 95 | 159 | 18.2 |
| world | 2 | 16 | 12.8 |
| solar | 0 | 8 | 11.3 |
In Space sections, Grace’s vocabulary is shaped by his immediate situation: Taumoeba, xenonite, Rocky, gravity, ship. His most proportionally overused word is yes.
On Earth, his speech is about the global situation: energy, sun, solar, world, people. The pronouns she and he appear because he’s talking about other people, while in Space he’s mostly talking to Rocky directly.
Log-likelihood (LL) measures how statistically surprising the difference in frequency is between two subcorpora. Higher LL = more distinctive. All values shown are significant at p < 0.001 (LL > 10.83).
Analysis is based on lemmas (lemmatization by spaCy) with punctuation excluded.
I’m a different person now
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