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Derrida, Chapter 2 'Of Grammatology'

>Bullshit Index :0.26 Your text shows some indications of 'bullshit'

some indications ... I'd say this thing is broken.



I agree.

I tried some Hegel, who scored 0.18. Clearly broken.

Schopenhauer got it right, where BlaBlaMeter gets it wrong:

"If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right. Further, if I were to say that this summus philosophus ... scribbled nonsense quite unlike any mortal before him, so that whoever could read his most eulogized work, the so-called Phenomenology of the Mind, without feeling as if he were in a madhouse, would qualify as an inmate for Bedlam, I should be no less right."


That snippet scores 0.26


I copied that text into the meter, got the .26 you saw. I then listened in to a conversation at the cube next to mine and wrote that in. "Using software as a service we can replicate and evergreen in the cloud." One simple sentence jumped it to a .35.


YES. Someone needs to make a voice-to-text app that has a "bullshit meter" needle, and that beeps rapidly (a la PKE meter) when a threshold is exceeded.

http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/pke-meter/


You're just bitter that that era of philosopher in general used an artificially complicated writing style, complete with invented terminology, that borders bullshit :)


I'm just pointing out it is broken.

Finnegan's Wake, Chapter 2, Book 1.

> Bullshit Index :0.11 Your text shows only a few indications of 'bullshit'-English.

definitely broken

Or perhaps it's a feature and it can pick out philosophical / artistic 'bullshit' from PR 'bullshit'.

Quote for people not familiar with 'Finnegan's Wake'

> And aroud the lawn the rann it rann and this is the rann that Hosty made. Spoken. Boyles and Cahills, Skerretts and Pritchards, viersefied and piersified may the treeth we tale of live in stoney. Here line the refrains of. Some vote him Vike, some mote him Mike, some dub him Llyn and Phin while others hail him Lug Bug Dan Lop, Lex, Lax, Gunne or Guinn. Some apt him Arth, some bapt him Barth, Coll, Noll, Soll, Will, Weel, Wall but I parse him Persse O'Reilly else he's called no name at all. To- gether. Arrah, leave it to Hosty, frosty Hosty, leave it to Hosty for he's the mann to rhyme the rann, the rann, the rann, the king of all ranns. Have you here? (Some ha) Have we where? (Some hant) Have you hered? (Others do) Have we whered (Others dont) It's cumming, it's brumming! The clip, the clop! (All cla) Glass crash. The(klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrotty- graddaghsemmihsammihnouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot!)


You have a weird definition of 'bullshit' if you think that counts.

Anyway, I'd assume it's looking for certain 'filler' words and phrases that get used a lot when writing BS.


"Bullshit" is a word I'd use to describe Finnegan's Wake, but it certainly is valuable & extremely beautiful bullshit.


I believe there may be a line drawn between "bullshit" and "nonsense" :)


Man, that is so much better if you read it aloud.


Try the following text, which I pulled from a brand management web site:

We help businesses increase profitability by helping develop a strategic market approach and communicate the right message.

Our approach is designed for those serious and committed to looking inward so they can connect outward for greater results in an expedient manner.

We analyze your business goals, assess your marketing needs to accomplish them, create a strategic plan and manage its implementation, leaving owners and managers to tend to other needs of their business.

Excerpt is cited as fair use, namely the educational value in evaluating a tool with three sentences of buzzword heavy english from a real site. Specific citation info omitted only so they won't be embarrassed, but may be found with Google.




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