On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 at 12:45:18 -0700 (PDT) R. William Gosper queried:
Of equally dubitable novelty:
Q: How is Margaret not a gem?
I got half of it, and Rich got the other. You and Asimov should collaborate on puzzle creation! Got me to thinking that it is a shame that enutrof means nothing. Wouldn't it be nice if some kind of new Esperanto would combine spelling and meaning, so that the word meaning "bad" would be spelled "doog" and you could easily gnorw a wrong. Neutral words would have to be palindromic - shades of greyyerg. In order to maintain pronouncability spelling would change dramatically, probably alternating vowel and consonant. Hawaiian would be a good prototype. How about a number representation system in which xyz * zyx = 1? Or any other relationship? Hilarie