“‘Cause I wanna learn more, about letters!”

December 20, 2017 4:57 AM

Tom7 explores the potential of anagrams that use individual parts of letters, rather than limiting ourselves to only whole complete letters.
posted by DoctorFedora (13 comments total)

Sometimes I wish there were a way to send up the bat signal to other mefites. Chris Pratt's Raptor Army peeps where are you.
posted by phunniemee at 5:07 AM on December 20, 2017 [3 favorites]

I've never come across suckerpinch before, and, wow!
posted by ambrosen at 5:35 AM on December 20, 2017

Holy hell; what a great video! And a great idea to break the letters into bits to make it just another combinatorial problem. The whole thing is explained clearly and concisely ... it's like the antithesis of the rest of Youtube.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:45 AM on December 20, 2017 [1 favorite]

I've never come across suckerpinch before, and, wow!

Well, it's far from not exactly Zack Snyder's best work, but... oh...

never mind
posted by Naberius at 6:15 AM on December 20, 2017 [3 favorites]

I love Tom7 so much, thanks! I wish I had an hour to watch the longer video right now.
posted by Kwine at 6:44 AM on December 20, 2017

Tom7 is the best. Excited to watch this. Thanks for sharing!
posted by defenestration at 7:21 AM on December 20, 2017

This was great. Relaxed, informative, interesting and fun. Thanks for posting.
posted by rollick at 8:36 AM on December 20, 2017

That was really charming! I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of Tom7 videos before, probably via MeFi, and I should make more of a point of keeping track of his stuff.

The video is also close to my heart on the decomposed letter front: I spent some time right around the start of this year building out an experimental typeface (that I ended up calling Pipe Minimal and haven't touched in months) that worked specifically off the premise of all glyph forms being composed only of quarter-circle arcs and straight line segments with a length the radius of said circle.

Like Tom says: s is an awful letter. When I was showing it off, I got more complaints/suggestions about the lower case s than about everything else combined.
posted by cortex at 8:43 AM on December 20, 2017 [5 favorites]

Why don’t we all boycott the letter s!
posted by aubilenon at 9:30 AM on December 20, 2017

I see you, fhqwhgads!!!


(I LOLed.)
posted by darkstar at 9:30 AM on December 20, 2017 [6 favorites]

There should be a word for when you hit subscribe even before watching the video all the way through. Instasub or some shit. Usage: That was so good that by the end I felt like unsubscribing so I could instasub a second time.

Also, a word for when you encounter someone way smarter than you and it gives you that sense of giddy delight.
posted by xigxag at 5:28 PM on December 20, 2017 [1 favorite]

This was incredibly interesting, thank you for sharing!
posted by jessypie at 6:46 PM on December 20, 2017

Speaking of the letter S, here's an essay by Don Knuth on the topic.
posted by Death and Gravity at 3:53 PM on December 22, 2017 [1 favorite]