X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,70fcbec30aae4b9e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-02 04:30:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.stealth.net!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail From: Ilmari Karonen Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Challenge... Date: 2 Apr 2001 11:29:05 GMT Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <986210649.20495@itz.pp.sci.fi> References: <5k32ctgt6dhmhhhs4e5vuaicltniju7h5a@4ax.com> <986051709.13467@itz.pp.sci.fi> Reply-To: Ilmari Karonen NNTP-Posting-Host: simpukka.saunalahti.fi X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 986210945 13866 195.74.0.20 (2 Apr 2001 11:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Apr 2001 11:29:05 GMT User-Agent: postit.pl 0.05 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:5064 In article , Lemming wrote: >In the last episode, Ilmari Karonen wrote: >>In article , Eli the Bearded wrote: >>> >>>There are not many words that are also words rot-13ed. I used to use >>>an Organization: header on my posts that read "gnat tang" which is >>>a palindrome that rot-13s into the words swapped, "tang gnat". >> >>The YAWL contains 108 such pairs, > >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. 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. -- . _, .. j u s t. h o w l.i n g i n .t h e n.i g h t .. ._, . , )'' . /\_ . ' ,/\ . , ``( , _\__/ |__.'\._______,--;_'_`-.___,.______,/_,_`.__,-.__'__,/`-._,_| \____ ,_f_)\. Ilmari Karonen iltzu@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ /(_|_,.