ROT13-ified * gnat <-> tang
Rob Myers wrote: > http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008772.html > > "Paxed, in a comment on the efflorescence of zombies thread, pointed out > that terra is green when transformed by Rot13. This intrigued me; I > wondered what other such pairs there could be. So I cobbled together a > quick Ruby script to hunt for such pairs, and pointed it at my system’s > /usr/share/dict/words file. > > The resulting file ran to over 150 lines, with some duplication, but > consisted mostly of what I call “bullshit Scrabble words” — the sort of > words that Scrabble players and Gene Wolfe use all the time, but which > rarely show up in real conversations: yn, avo, sneb, qubba, and the like. > But there were a few pairs of real, everyday words: > > * terra ⇔ green > * nun ⇔ aha > * nag ⇔ ant > * oho ⇔ bub > * one ⇔ bar > * onyx ⇔ balk > * ova ⇔ bin > * pent ⇔ crag > * rail ⇔ envy > * sync ⇔ flap" > > There's some really good ones in the rest of the post... > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
