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[yorikiried by fate]

Fellow foristae:

For a project of mine, I need third-party-input, aka your help. The task is to find single buzzwords/phrases that cover gradients of 1 to 10. Such words could be of all types and don't have to be restricted to adjectives.

I need to populate four such sets with 10 words/compounds/mini-phrases each. Each set covers the spectrum of veryveryverybad to veryveryverygood, but each with slightly different flavour.

 

• Set 1 is easiness of task, something from near-death-experience to autotune.
• Set 2 is quality related, from nuclear waste to Michelangelo's frescos.
• Set 3 is value related, from total rip-off to cornucopia.
• Set 4 is core bad to good, from diabolical to godly (or the other way around if you are of the satanist persuasion).

As I mentioned, all kinds of qualifications are fine. Also all registers. Also all levels of (sub)cultural load. So "repulsive" works for me as well as "turd". Or "milkrun" as well as "breeze". The project would prefer short stuff over whole sentences.

I would kindly ask you to tap your immense brains and creativity to give me some material that I can use to complement my own. I would be happy, if you could name the set and grade together with your suggestion, i.e.: "mediocre S2, G5". Particularly grade is difficult for me to assess in English.
As far as I can tell, the middle ground is the most difficult, as language tends to qualify extremes better.

An die deutschsprachigen Forumsmitglieder: Ich benötige dasselbe auch auf Deutsch [I also need the whole construct in German]!

Let me thank you in advance for any kind of input. TBH, I consider myself to be pretty creative, language-wise, nevertheless, this task shows me my limits, particularly in English.

Disclaimer: This is not something that I need for some customer right now or something. It's rather for a project of my own that I hope might create profit for myself in the future, for which the task at hand is a pretty detail. If everything will turn out successful, expect nothing but full public recognition for your support!

Edited November 29, 2021 by yorikiried by fate

[yorikiried by fate]

To clarify, I don't expect anyone to give me WHOLE SETS. But if you could sepend five minutes to think of five qualifiers and put them into the grid that I outlined, I'd be very happy, since it adds up.

[hakutorizakura]

Well since this is sumoforum... Would something like this work? 

1. Yokozuna

2. Ozeki

3. Sekiwake

4. Komusubi

5. Maegashira

6. Juryo

7. Makushita

8. Sandanme

9. Jonidan

10. Jonokuchi

[Yamanashi]

Set 1: (hard to easy)

1 General Relativity

2 Special Relativity

3 Triathlon

4 Auto Repair

5 Play Cello

6 Tax Return

7 Bake Souffle

8 Alphabet Song

9 Make Toast

10 Snap Fingers

[Yaochozuna]

Difficulty in paddling. We use it in Czech but it's the same in German, as we've mimicked you for all our history ZW = Zahmwasser; WW = Wildwasser X = unfahrbar

1) ZWA
2) ZWB
3) ZWC
4) WW I
5) WW II
6) WW III
7) WW IV
8) WW V
9) WW VI
10) X

[yorikiried by fate]

1 hour ago, Yaochozuna said:

as we've mimicked you for all our history

If you did (which I hope you didn't) then I know at least one department, where you're in the lead: Pils. [what the beer barbarians call lager]

 

Hey actually that's for the list: S2 G8-10 Czech lager; S2 G1-4 non-Czech lager!

Edited December 1, 2021 by yorikiried by fate

[yorikiried by fate]

Thanks to the first responders BTW. I will try to post some matrices of my own these days, to spark controversy and discussion.

[Yaochozuna]

2 hours ago, yorikiried by fate said:

If you did (which I hope you didn't) then I know at least one department, where you're in the lead: Pils. [what the beer barbarians call lager]

 

Hey actually that's for the list: S2 G8-10 Czech lager; S2 G1-4 non-Czech lager!

Mainly we did  Further reading: Ferdinand Seibt, Deutschland und die Tschechen. Naja, was wäre ein richtiger tschechischer Intellektueller des 19. Jahrhunderts ohne die Reclam-Verlag Bücher gewesen?
And as for Pilsner Beer, the keyword here is Josef Groll.

[yorikiried by fate]

Oh well. But then again there are the Czech TV series for children. We didn't have anything comparable in quality and entertainment value.

[Yaochozuna]

Okay, okay. We're original, after all  (Although even here there's some German input or at least circumstantial influence but we'd be really way offtopic discussing it.)

[Akinomaki]

Some combination of bad to good and easy to difficult

1 Hopeless/Hoffnungslos

2 Opposing/Ablehnend

3 Unwilling/Unwillig

4 Follower/Anhänger

5 Beginner/Anfänger

6 Advanced/Fortgeschritten

7 Specialist/Spezialist

8 Expert(e)

9 Sage/Weiser

10 (Taoist) Immortal/Unsterblicher

[yorikiried by fate]

OK, I will throw in a couple of by myself:

Set 1 - easyness of task

• Piece of cake; milkrun; done (all 1-2)
• in a minute; easy; you were saying? (2)
• interesting (either 3 or 9)
• smalltalk (either 3 or 10)
• interesting smalltalk (9-10)
• routine (2)
• demanding (8)
• that's what I did! (7-8)
• ukulele (4)
• harp (9)
• attentivness (8-9)
• surprising (6)
• near death (10)
• apocalyptic (10)
• fair (4-5)
• stupid (6-7)
• pitfall (8)
• pleasing (3-4)

[Randomitsuki]

Here is a list in terms of accessibility (don't know which would be the most fitting category, it seems to cut across your four categories):

1: Richard Clayderman

2: Johann Strauß

3: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4. Ludwig van Beethoven

5: Johann Sebastian Bach

6: Bela Bartok

7: Anton Bruckner

8: Gustav Mahler

9: Olivier Messiaen

10: Arnold Schönberg

 

[sumojoann]

Set 4 (Bad to Good)

1) Treachery

2) Fraud

3) Violence

4) Heresy

5) Anger

6) Greed

7) Gluttony

8) Lust

9) Limbo

10) Heaven

(From Dante's Inferno - 9 Circles of Hell + Heaven)

Is this what you're looking for?  I know my list is mainly bad but from what I've read, Treachery is the worst circle and Limbo is the "best" bad circle.  I'm not sure what you mean by "grading."

 

[Sokkenaiyama]

Could we see the finished product, years later?