In Titus Graun, I interrogated issues around the Grauniness, or Guardianisticity, of two keyly committed core components of the counter-cultural community: the semiotician Stewart Home and the æsthetician John Coulthart. Seeking to utilizate their usage-metrics for the core/epicentral Guardianista phrase “in terms of” (i.t.o.), I interrogated their personal websites like this in terms of January 2013:
site:http://www.johncoulthart.com “in terms of”
About 2,180 resultssite:http://www.johncoulthart.com “the”
About 8,860 resultssite:http://www.johncoulthart.com “and”
About 8,150 results
site:http://www.stewarthomesociety.org “in terms of”
About 123 resultssite:http://www.stewarthomesociety.org “the”
About 602 resultssite:http://www.stewarthomesociety.org “and”
About 599 results
Noting that Coulthart’s site used “the/and” approximately 14 times more often than Home’s, I adjusted Home’s raw i.t.o.-score accordingly: 123 x 14 = 1722. I concluded that Coulthart, with an i.t.o.-score of 2180, was approximately 26·59% Graunier than Home – exactly as one might have hoped, given that Coulthart is not merely a Guardianista (good), but a gay Guardianista (doubleplusgood). But that was in terms of January. When I re-interrogated their websites in terms of June 2013, I discovered that the semiotic situation had transitioned in a most disturbing and disquieting way:
site:http://www.johncoulthart.com “in terms of”
About 1,080 resultssite:http://www.johncoulthart.com “the”
About 8,680 resultssite:http://www.johncoulthart.com “and”
About 8,010 results
site:http://www.stewarthomesociety.org “in terms of”
About 119 resultssite:http://www.stewarthomesociety.org “the”
About 541 resultssite:http://www.stewarthomesociety.org “and”
About 536 results
I was aghast (literally) to see that Coulthart’s i.t.o.-metrics have spiked (in reverse). Other lexicostatistical metrics have transitioned relatively little: his site now seems to use “the/and” approximately 15·5 times more often than Home’s. Home’s raw i.t.o.-score is 119 and 119 x 15·5 = 1844·5. So it is now Home who is approximately 70·78% Graunier than Coulthart.
This can only be described as highly suspicious. What has Coulthart been up to? Has he been spraying his site with verbicide? Has he donned a black Savoy nihilinja-suit™, crept out under cover of darkness and clubbed innocent i.t.o.’s as they lay basking in the feral radiance of Manchester’s Most Maverick Messiahs? If so, this is “‘Pushing the Transgressive Envelope Too Far’ Too Far” too far. Even M.M.M.M. must look askance at behaviour like that. Surely.
Previously pre-posted (please peruse):
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
I lost it at “nihilinja”.
Nihilinjas are practitioners of nihiliterature. The best are trained at the Shibi Manka Academy run by Savoy Books, England’s loudest publishers. I’d quote something, but it would give you tinnitus.