comment vs telling

comment

noun
  • The act of commenting. 

  • A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code. 

  • The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme. 

  • A spoken or written remark. 

verb
  • To make remarks or notes. 

  • To insert comments into (source code). 

  • To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment. 

  • To remark. 

telling

noun
  • The act of narration. 

  • The disclosure of information. 

  • Ability to determine. 

adj
  • Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective. 

  • Serving to convince. 

  • Revealing information; bearing significance. 

How often have the words comment and telling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )