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Anagramming

Anagramming

  • Yes, but I do them by hand

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  • Yes, when they are generated by computers

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  • No, I never had a clue how to do

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  • No, I find it a waste of time

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  • Ana who? Is she Cuban?

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carlsson

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Since I was bored at work, I tried to come up with some anagrams on "Vintage Computer Forum" (I left out the "The", but if someone wants to include in your anagrams, you're welcome).

It was difficult to get some really meningful anagrams, but these five are the ones I've come up with so far:

Tumor Fungi Move Carpet (sounds quite weird)
Picture of Magnum T. Rover (whoever that is)
Foot Pervert - I C U, Magnum! (oh, now we know!)
Fuego Carnivore Putt MM (a meat-eating golfer on fire?)
Micro PET Goat Fur Nevum (I think nevum is latin for a birth mark?)

Does anyone else want to play? Neither of these five is very descriptive when it comes to what the forum is about.
 
Re: Anagramming

"carlsson" wrote:

> Since I was bored at work, I tried to come up with some
> anagrams on "Vintage Computer Forum" (I left out the
> "The", but if someone wants to include in your anagrams,
> you're welcome).

> It was difficult to get some really meningful anagrams,
> but these five are the ones I've come up with so far:

> Tumor Fungi Move Carpet (sounds quite weird)
> Picture of Magnum T. Rover (whoever that is)
> Foot Pervert - I C U, Magnum! (oh, now we know!)
> Fuego Carnivore Putt MM (a meat-eating golfer on fire?)
> Micro PET Goat Fur Nevum (I think nevum is latin for a
> birth mark?)

> Does anyone else want to play? Neither of these five
> is very descriptive when it comes to what the forum
> is about.

I usually don't have time for this, but here's one I guess.

Age Input
Vertigo ain't he
Computer Vintage

Na, I can't quite get the hang of this! ;-)

Cheers,
CP/M User.
 
Here is a neat site I found on anagrams Erik.

Some really cool examples.

Man, some people are really good at this.

Chris
 
"carlsson" wrote:

> Looks more like a haiku than an anagram (or maybe
> that was the intent). Good attempt through.

Looks more like a what than an anagram? Didn't I do that
right. Crikey if they wish to make these puzzles right, I
might as well crawl up & die! :-(

As I said to Erik, there's no mention about an Anagram
using all the letters which use up a word, unless you call
taking a sentence or word & changing the order of letters
into another word or sentence

CP/M User.
 
Ok, maybe you don't have to use all the letters, but it gets more like a challenge to find use for them all.

A haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry, which normally is built up by using a fixed set of syllables on each line. There is discussion about how many syllables one should use, and since Japanese doesn't translate well into Western countries, one cannot follow the original ruleset anyway.

Often a haiku poem is built by 3+5+3 syllables or IIRC from school, we used 5+5+7+9+3+3 for a longer form.
 
"carlsson" wrote:

> Ok, maybe you don't have to use all the letters, but it gets
> more like a challenge to find use for them all.

Well I'm not too sure, I'm only going by what the Dictionary
said. Perhaps it's just talking about what Anagram means
without going into the rules about the game.

It might be like looking for the term for Chess. A dictionary
would give you a rough idea about it or the object, but it
wouldn't explain the rules of the game (that's why you'd go
to a book about Chess & see what that has to say). For
example a dictionary wouldn't tell you where you can move
your king, queen, bishop, pawn or whatever. Each of those
pieces can only move in a certain position.

Cheers,
CP/M User.
 
carlsson said:
Ok, maybe you don't have to use all the letters, but it gets more like a challenge to find use for them all.

A haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry, which normally is built up by using a fixed set of syllables on each line. There is discussion about how many syllables one should use, and since Japanese doesn't translate well into Western countries, one cannot follow the original ruleset anyway.

Often a haiku poem is built by 3+5+3 syllables or IIRC from school, we used 5+5+7+9+3+3 for a longer form.
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I always thought it was 5, 7, 5, for a total of 17 syllables. (Here's some of what google came up with):

Definitions of haiku on the Web:

A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku often reflect on some aspect of nature.
www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html


an unrhymed poetic form, Japanese in origin, that contains seventeen syllables arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.
www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb/glossary_gh.htm


brief poem of seventeen syllables
www.nps.gov/efmo/parks/glossary.htm


(plural: Haiku, from archaic Japanese Haikai): A poetic form derived from Japanese literature. The haiku traditionally consists of three lines. The first line contains five syllables, the second line contains seven, and the last line five. The traditional subject-matter is a description of a location, natural phenomona, or wildlife, which is described in a poetic manner without authorial commentary or moral judgment explicitly stated. More information will be forthcoming.
guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/lit_terms_H.html


A haiku is a Japanese poem having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Traditionally it concerns nature, the seasons, or an aspect of the natural world.
community.middlebury.edu/~asantolu/glossary.htm


a three-line, seventeen syllable form usually about nature.
www.writefromhome.com/writingtradearticles/197.htm


Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that does not rhyme. Haiku poetry always has three lines of verse, with strict rules on the numbers of syllables for each line. The first line has five, the second line has seven, and the last line has five syllables.
164.109.43.23/GEP/documents/oth/teamlyc/glossary.htm
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I have never heard of any other form before. (Here's one of mine, untitled):
Code: 
Electric dildo,
masturbating vibrator.
She loves her machine

--T
 
Yes, Haiku is usually 5-7-5 syllable, but must be 17 in total. Also, you are not allowed to use similies and metaphors.

Most famous for Haiku, is Basho, who died in 1694.
 
Oh well. I knew it was prime numbers, but counted a few too less. I wonder where that longer form we used in school came from.

How about this one then, based on what CP/M User wrote before?

Input from great age
RAM not working, vertigo
Computer vintage

Rather sad one, considering it doesn't hold its memory contents anymore.
 
"Terry Yager" wrote:

>> How about this one then, based on what CP/M User
>> wrote before?

>> Input from great age
>> RAM not working, vertigo
>> Computer vintage

> Good one, carlsson! (Sounds like a couple of my
> vintage machines).

Next, you'll be playing games like what can abbreviated
terms stand for? You know, like IIRC or IMHO! ;-)

Cheers,
CP/M User.
 
Here is one haiku particulary for vic_user and dongfeng:

**** COMMODORE BASIC ****
Three point five kilobyte free
?Out of memory

(don't read out the asterisks or question mark)
 
My mind must be going, or I need more coffee.

I was just reading Anders' Commodore haiku, and thought at first it was an anagram, and was trying to rearrange the letters :oops:

Chris
 
Maybe combining different art forms (if anagrams can be called a form of art) is as improper as they say it is to combine different drugs; the results are unpredictable and possibly lethal.
 
"Terry Yager" wrote:

>> Next, you'll be playing games like what can abbreviated
>> terms stand for? You know, like IIRC or IMHO! ;-)

> Or mebbe we're due for a limerick thread. There was a
> young lady from Kent...

Can't say I'm familiar with a limerick thread. What does
that involve?

Cheers,
CP/M User.
 
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