X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,70fcbec30aae4b9e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-02 04:46:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tns254.uk.tnsofres.COM!not-for-mail From: "Lemming" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Challenge... Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:43:21 +0100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <9a9onn$4btp3$1@ID-16776.news.dfncis.de> References: <5k32ctgt6dhmhhhs4e5vuaicltniju7h5a@4ax.com> <986051709.13467@itz.pp.sci.fi> <986210649.20495@itz.pp.sci.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: tns254.uk.tnsofres.com (194.202.213.254) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 986211895 4585251 194.202.213.254 (16 [16776]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:5065 Ilmari Karonen wrote: > In article , Lemming wrote: > >In the last episode, Ilmari Karonen wrote: > >>In article , 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