MANQUE shakes it up a bit
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Graphing the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words. [via Kottke]
Having fun coming up with words that best exemplify it.
PAUSE
posted by furtive at 9:47 PM on July 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
PAUSE
posted by furtive at 9:47 PM on July 13, 2017 [2 favorites]
Having fun coming up with words that best exemplify it
Why?
posted by miguelcervantes at 10:41 PM on July 13, 2017
Why?
posted by miguelcervantes at 10:41 PM on July 13, 2017
Zhaphod Beeblebrox
There's a word for it
And words don't mean a thing
There's name for it
And names make all the difference in the world…
--Talking Heads
posted by lazycomputerkids at 10:42 PM on July 13, 2017 [3 favorites]
There's a word for it
And words don't mean a thing
There's name for it
And names make all the difference in the world…
--Talking Heads
posted by lazycomputerkids at 10:42 PM on July 13, 2017 [3 favorites]
toe, eh?
posted by chavenet at 11:25 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by chavenet at 11:25 PM on July 13, 2017 [1 favorite]
Originally posted in 2014; that checks out with my recollection of question #7 from this diabolically clever (but very hard!) infographics quiz.
posted by aws17576 at 11:41 PM on July 13, 2017
posted by aws17576 at 11:41 PM on July 13, 2017
Having fun coming up with words that best exemplify it
Or those nonsense words which seem most plausible to not be nonsense (and there is some brand naming gold in that data set, I suspect).
posted by rongorongo at 1:17 AM on July 14, 2017 [2 favorites]
Or those nonsense words which seem most plausible to not be nonsense (and there is some brand naming gold in that data set, I suspect).
posted by rongorongo at 1:17 AM on July 14, 2017 [2 favorites]
I write D&D materials quite a lot and have learned to rely on some of the more sophisticated language choppers/word generators/nonsense spouters for place and character names. None of them reflect this information, except implicitly. Now I'm left wondering what, if anything, I can do with this information -- it seems to fall into the part of the process where I manually wade through 99 fails to find the 1 rando-word that "seems right".
posted by Quindar Beep at 8:26 AM on July 14, 2017
posted by Quindar Beep at 8:26 AM on July 14, 2017
Also, how can we use this to name cats and guinea pigs?
posted by Quindar Beep at 8:26 AM on July 14, 2017
posted by Quindar Beep at 8:26 AM on July 14, 2017
Nice! Zaphod Beeblebrox really throws a wrench into this, though.
posted by Literaryhero at 12:41 AM on July 14
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Excuse you, sir.
posted by ZaphodB at 10:36 AM on July 14, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Literaryhero at 12:41 AM on July 14
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Excuse you, sir.
posted by ZaphodB at 10:36 AM on July 14, 2017 [2 favorites]
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