I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#2Tldr:
Rewrite all words so the letters in each word are rearranged alphabetically. Don't do this other thing suggested on StackExchange
Look at the list of anagrams
Recognize that the list is actually boring
Get silly with words and nerd out
The end!
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#3Link didn’t work for me. Here is a mirror:
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#4> regulation urogenital
Eyeballed the entire list*. This is the most 2023 one I could find.
(*no)
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#5Tldr: Rewrite all words so the letters in each word are rearranged alphabetically. Don't do this other thing suggested on StackExchange Look at the list of anagrams Recognize that the list is actually boring Get silly with words and nerd out The end!
uh, you forgot the actual tl;dr, which is
cinematographer --> megachiropteranRe: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#6That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones:
Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis
Charles Manson = Slasher con man
David Letterman = Dead mitral vent
Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon *
Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism
Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? *
* "Chaperon" is a valid alternate spelling of "chaperone"
** Yes, "oe" is a word
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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#8Jeremy’s Iron
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#9What’s nostalgic to me is that this is such a classic Perl pattern: hashing manipulated strings to find relationships. Prior to Perl doing this was painful. Boost wasn’t a thing. Python was in its cradle and Java was still struggling with beans. Perl removed the barriers between complex coding ideas and an implementation that C wasn’t ready for. The time from thought to prototype was near instant compared to current compiled languages.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#10I thought integrals / triangles was much more interesting, despite the shorter length. None of the other long pairs have any meaningful relationship, except for maybe excitation / intoxicate