[math-fun] Random thought
It's surprisingly difficult to formulate natural-sounding sentences whose acronyms are words, e.g. "Have a nice day" -> hand.
"A random thought" = art
On Jun 4, 2017, at 10:23 AM, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
It's surprisingly difficult to formulate natural-sounding sentences whose acronyms are words, e.g. "Have a nice day" -> hand.
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That's just a noun phrase, not a sentence. Try these: We all love laughter = wall Movies are sometimes hilarious = mash Boys run and sometime saunter = brass Tom Veit Elser writes:
"A random thought" = art
On Jun 4, 2017, at 10:23 AM, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
It's surprisingly difficult to formulate natural-sounding sentences whose acronyms are words, e.g. "Have a nice day" -> hand.
It's rather harder for longer acronyms, or if you're given the acronym. I'll throw out a random one: "decide"
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That's just a noun phrase, not a sentence.
Try these:
We all love laughter = wall Movies are sometimes hilarious = mash Boys run and sometime saunter = brass
Tom
Veit Elser writes:
"A random thought" = art
On Jun 4, 2017, at 10:23 AM, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
It's surprisingly difficult to formulate natural-sounding sentences whose acronyms are words, e.g. "Have a nice day" -> hand.
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On Jun 4, 2017, at 1:27 PM, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
It's rather harder for longer acronyms, or if you're given the acronym. I'll throw out a random one: "decide"
On 04/06/2017 18:27, David Wilson wrote:
It's rather harder for longer acronyms, or if you're given the acronym. I'll throw out a random one: "decide"
Don't ever claim I don't exist. (A deity's injunction, perhaps.) Discrete exterior calculus is damn interesting. Donald's extremism could irritate Democrats, evidently. David erroneously considers initialisms difficult exercise. -- g
I don't think the second one works (decidi instead of decide). You could fix it as: Discrete exterior calculus is damn exciting. Discrete exterior calculus is damn enlightening. etc. Here's a new one: Dangerous elephants charge into defiant enemies. Here's a more difficult challenge: Construct a paragraph such that the words obtained from each sentence form a sentence. Both the paragraph and the derived sentence should make some sense. Tom Gareth McCaughan writes:
On 04/06/2017 18:27, David Wilson wrote:
It's rather harder for longer acronyms, or if you're given the acronym. I'll throw out a random one: "decide"
Don't ever claim I don't exist. (A deity's injunction, perhaps.) Discrete exterior calculus is damn interesting. Donald's extremism could irritate Democrats, evidently. David erroneously considers initialisms difficult exercise.
-- g
On 2017-06-05 02:20, Tom Karzes wrote:
Here's a more difficult challenge: Construct a paragraph such that the words obtained from each sentence form a sentence. Both the paragraph and the derived sentence should make some sense.
Quest: unique orthographic documentation. Example: rodents are troublesome. Demonstrably, even moderately ornate natural statements truthfully reveal acronymic nuggets deep under mediocrity. :-)
Merely adding terms haphazardly finds unusual nuances. Hilariously I laughed about really inane events.
On 2017-06-05 11:32, William R Somsky wrote:
On 2017-06-05 02:20, Tom Karzes wrote:
Here's a more difficult challenge: Construct a paragraph such that the words obtained from each sentence form a sentence. Both the paragraph and the derived sentence should make some sense.
Quest: unique orthographic documentation. Example: rodents are troublesome. Demonstrably, even moderately ornate natural statements truthfully reveal acronymic nuggets deep under mediocrity.
:-)
Actually, make that "underneath" in the last line there... :-)
On 05/06/2017 10:20, Tom Karzes wrote:
I don't think the second one works (decidi instead of decide).
Yow, dunno what went wrong with my brain there. Sorry about that.
You could fix it as:
Discrete exterior calculus is damn exciting. Discrete exterior calculus is damn enlightening. etc.
Yup. -- g
Damned easy conundrum, I'm duly embarrassed. Ok, well then, sentence must make sense, initials AND terminals must spell a word. Pffffft.
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On 04/06/2017 18:27, David Wilson wrote:
It's rather harder for longer acronyms, or if you're given the acronym. I'll throw out a random one: "decide"
Don't ever claim I don't exist. (A deity's injunction, perhaps.) Discrete exterior calculus is damn interesting. Donald's extremism could irritate Democrats, evidently. David erroneously considers initialisms difficult exercise.
-- g
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Without the constraint that the sentence must make sense, this is the core of a 19th-century crossword-puzzle precursor called (I think) a "double crostic". Lewis Carroll authored several. Pretend Angela threw engines. On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:41 PM, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
Damned easy conundrum, I'm duly embarrassed.
Ok, well then, sentence must make sense, initials AND terminals must spell a word. Pffffft.
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On 04/06/2017 18:27, David Wilson wrote:
It's rather harder for longer acronyms, or if you're given the acronym. I'll throw out a random one: "decide"
Don't ever claim I don't exist. (A deity's injunction, perhaps.) Discrete exterior calculus is damn interesting. Donald's extremism could irritate Democrats, evidently. David erroneously considers initialisms difficult exercise.
-- g
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