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I was wondering how many words in why this kolaveri di song belongs to english. So I wrote this code to evaluate.
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#! /usr/bin/env | |
#! -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
lyrics = """ | |
yo boys i am singing song | |
soup song | |
flop song | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
rhythm correct | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
maintain please | |
why this kolaveri di | |
distance la moon-u moon-u | |
moon-u color-u white-u | |
white background night-u night-u | |
night-u color-u black-u | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
white skin-u girl-u girl-u | |
girl-u heart-u black-u | |
eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u | |
my future dark | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
maama notes eduthuko | |
apdiye kaila snacks eduthuko | |
pa pa paan pa pa paan pa pa paa pa pa paan | |
sariya vaasi | |
super maama ready | |
ready 1 2 3 4 | |
whaa wat a change over maama | |
ok maama now tune change-u | |
kaila glass | |
only english | |
hand la glass | |
glass la scotch | |
eyes-u full-a tear-u | |
empty life-u | |
girl-u come-u | |
life reverse gear-u | |
love-u love-u | |
oh my love-u | |
you showed me bouv-u | |
cow-u cow-u holy cow-u | |
i want you hear now-u | |
god i am dying now-u | |
she is happy how-u | |
this song for soup boys-u | |
we dont have choice-u | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di | |
flop song | |
""" | |
dict_file_path = "/usr/share/dict/words" | |
def sanitize(words): | |
for index, word in enumerate(words): | |
if word.endswith("-u") or word.endswith("-a"): | |
words[index] = word[:-2] | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
# Get all words | |
words = [word for line in lyrics.split("\n") for word in line.split(" ") if word != ""] | |
# Load english words | |
dictionary_words = open(dict_file_path).readlines() | |
# Remove \n in dictionary words | |
dictionary_words = [word.split("\n")[0] for word in dictionary_words] | |
# Add missing words | |
dictionary_words.append("boys") | |
dictionary_words.append("snacks") | |
dictionary_words.append("eyes") | |
dictionary_words.append("english") | |
dictionary_words.append("1") | |
dictionary_words.append("2") | |
dictionary_words.append("3") | |
dictionary_words.append("4") | |
dictionary_words.append("notes") | |
dictionary_words.append("ok") | |
dictionary_words.append("showed") | |
# Remove -u which sounds like Tamil words | |
sanitize(words) | |
# Find unique words | |
unique_words = set(words) | |
# Find english words | |
eng_words = [word for word in unique_words if word in dictionary_words] | |
non_eng_words = unique_words - set(eng_words) | |
# Remove empty element | |
non_eng_words = [word for word in non_eng_words if word != ""] | |
print("==English Words==") | |
print(eng_words) | |
print("==Non English Words==") | |
print(non_eng_words) | |
print("Total unique words: %d,\n English words: %d,\n Non English words: %d,\n Percentage of english words: %f" % (len(unique_words), len(eng_words), len(non_eng_words), float(len(eng_words))/len(unique_words) * 100)) |
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Output
➜ lua python why_this_kolaveri_di.py
==English Words==
['over', 'skin', 'la', 'only', 'black', '4', 'rhythm', 'yo', 'di', 'choice', 'dark', 'background', '2', 'now', 'tear', 'notes', 'she', 'night', 'girl', 'for', 'god', 'please', 'moon', '3', 'correct', 'we', 'full', 'how', 'super', 'change', 'ok', 'reverse', 'cow', 'oh', 'love', 'dont', 'color', 'singing', 'come', 'pa', 'white', 'wat', 'empty', 'happy', 'eyes', 'gear', 'holy', 'boys', 'hear', 'me', 'distance', 'showed', 'this', 'soup', 'future', 'meet', 'my', 'heart', 'have', 'snacks', 'is', 'am', 'want', 'ready', 'dying', 'song', '1', 'you', 'hand', 'why', 'tune', 'a', 'glass', 'i', 'scotch', 'flop', 'life', 'maintain', 'english']
==Non English Words==
['kaila', 'sariya', 'paa', 'apdiye', 'eduthuko', 'vaasi', 'maama', 'whaa', 'bouv', 'paan', 'kolaveri']
Total unique words: 90,
English words: 79,
Non English words: 11,
Percentage of english words: 87.777778
Blog Post
http://kracekumar.com/post/55796363713/why-this-kolaveri-di-song-words-language