Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mother in law = Woman Hitler is another classic
Does that count as Godwinning the anagrams discussion?
Godwin’s law = wild wagons
I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#72I’m going to hear the Paul Simon lyric as “Don’t I know you from the megachiropteran’s party?” from now on
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#73I 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
What you don't think all married people are admirers of sidearms /s > 7 admirer married > 7 admires sidearm
This one reminded me of those captcha cartoons that were popular for awhile. “Admires sidearm” in curved writing and a simple drawing.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#74I wonder whether someone made a similar effort for finding the "most rhyming" words in English. Of course, since this would be based on sound, it would need to incorporate additional information besides spelling.
It also starts a huge argument about what kinds of rhyming are permitted (visual, sound, which accent, etc) - and some languages “rhyme” on things we wouldn’t use in English like the emphasis, etc.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#75That 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 a…
How many generated anagrams do you have to skim through to find these gems? Was the program written in a way that limits the output to phrases that make at least some sense?
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#76What’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…
Ummm, the author used awk for the first version in the 1990s. > This was easy to do, even at the time, when the word list itself, at 2.5 megabytes, was a file of significant size. Perl and its cousins were not yet common; in those days I used Awk. But the task is not very different in any reasonable language:
I know. I’m talking about Perl. Try to keep up.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#77What’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…
You don't _need_ to hash anything. The simplest way to do it, is to convert all the words to (normal_form, orig_word) pairs, write the list to a file, then sort it. It will be trivial to find the words with common normal form after the sort. (Of course, you wouldn't catch me trying to implement that with C if perl is an option...)
Go try your method and spot the bug. If you can’t, then respond and I’ll tell you. hint: you need one more manipulation to find the answer before or after the sort, there’s a command line version of it but it uses .. a hash.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#78Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
That’s a palindrome but a good EP by Soundgarden (Nude Dragons).
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#79My personal favourite is that an anagram of Banach-Tarski is Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.
It only has a score of 6 though, in the typical formulation.