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Clint Eastwood = Old West Action is still my favorite serendiptious anagram. I also like the mathematically correct ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE especially because it's also an numeric anagram 11 + 2 = 12 + 1
Mother in law = Woman Hitler is another classic
What’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...)
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 285. Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet. TXR's sound system features 120 dB separation between quarreling audiophiles. 1> (flow "/usr/share/dict/words" file-get-lines (group-by sort) hash-values (keep-if cdr) (sort @1 : [chain car len])) (("ho" "oh") ("am" "ma") ("em" "me") ("no" "on") ("ah" "ha") ("it" "ti") ("mu" "um") ("eh" "he") ("a…
My favorite has always been: A man a plan a canal Panama
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_panama.html
I've always been partial to pangrams: sentences that use every letter in the alphabet at least once, typically shooting for a short sentence.
My favorite is "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs". Not minimal, but delightful and uses only words that most mortals know.
That 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…
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action is still my favorite serendiptious anagram. I also like the mathematically correct ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE especially because it's also an numeric anagram 11 + 2 = 12 + 1
Goedel's incompleteness theorem fans would be drooling all over this