On 10 Oct 2002, David Turner wrote: > Is, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." an English sentence > (parsable, but semantically garbage)? What about "Fry apples the > Stallman." (English words, unparsable). "My three-cornered hat has four > corners." (internally inconsistent)
The bigger problem with these is all the extra letters. Look how many times the letter E shows up in those examples! It's all subjective but I'm willing to take a little bit of nonsense here if it'll make something short that works. Names & initials & acronyms make it easier to get close to the magic 26 letter mark [an example I've been sent offlist actually hit 26 letters, but then it has a name, a "PhD", etc and, moreover, Dave didn't solve it with Perl... :]. The again, the degenerate case would be the acronym for the Association for Bionic Computing Device Engineering For Greater Human Interface....'s ABCDEFGHIJ... which isn't very satisfying either. Clever compromises that hit or approach 26 are all fine. It's not like there's anything riding on this :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q: What is purple and concord the world? A: Alexander the Grape. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
