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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Apr 2001.
Re: Challenge...

Re: Challenge...

Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.invalid> wrote:
> In article <st2...@4ax.com>, Lemming wrote:
> >In the last episode, Ilmari Karonen <ilt...@sci.invalid> wrote:
> >>In article <eli$010...@qz.little-neck.ny.us>, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> >>>
> >What is YAWL?  Is it online?  Maybe I'll revisit this - 108 pairs
> >might be enough for haiku ...
>
> Yet Another Word List.  A web search ought to find it.

Excellent - I found 0.2 at http://www.ibiblio.org//pub/linux/libs/ -
hopefully this is the most up to date?

It doesn't seem to have pairs of words though, so I suspect there's
something a bit more recent?  No matter, it'll be fun writing a program to
find the matching pairs anyway.

>I don't think
> the pairs would be enough for haiku, though, since most of them consist
> of abbreviations, prefixes, obscure placenames and other things that are
> not really proper words.  Constructing a meaningful sentence out of
> them, even if it didn't have to be grammatically correct, would be hard.

Hmm.  Have you read much Haiku?  (j/k).

Lemming

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