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I wonder where Weird Al Yankovic would come in on this ranking.

• coherentpony 12y ago
  Weird Al's songs are not articulate masterpieces, but cheap parodies of other rap songs and rappers. He's probably somewhere around the 5,000 mark with the other artists. A cursory google on the size of the average vocabulary [1] yields an interesting fact. I'm not sure how watertight it is. I realise it's probably unfair to compare the size of the average vocabulary to that of a series of songs. Songs being shorter for one. Still, it's interesting.
  • Moto7451 12y ago
    Not sure if that's fair to Weird Al. The people he parodies wouldn't really agree either [1]. It's not like he's doing the cheap morning show tactic of swapping clean words for dirty words or bad puns but leaving the rest of the song intact. They maintain a consistent theme which is really tough. [1] http://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5673 http://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5673
    • coherentpony 12y ago
      Yeah, perhaps I was a little harsh. Don't get me wrong, I like Weird Al. I probably could have phrased my comment a little better. I should have said something along the lines of, "In my experience listening to Weird Al, it doesn't feel like he explores a lot of the English language." Your link is cool, thanks for sharing that.