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- Xaevier, on 09/25/2009, -18/+956They could easily be completely different and it would take weeks before anyone actually spent the time to check.
- ianmgull, on 09/25/2009, -9/+636The word bed looks like a bed.
- pistoche, on 09/25/2009, -4/+456A women area massager
- jrosko1, on 09/25/2009, -6/+448It's all fun until someone loses an i.
- DAVENP0RT, on 09/25/2009, -3/+379You just ***** blew my mind.
- jokr004, on 09/25/2009, -0/+373I wrote a shell script
http://home.core-switchnet.com/letcount.txt
spat out
http://home.core-switchnet.com/results.txt
seems to check out... - AdmiralAcbar, on 09/25/2009, -7/+338Anagrams are awesome.
- bitweever, on 09/25/2009, -2/+270Here's the first one (including the text I used so you can double-check me for typo's). I didn't expect the spaces to match, but everything else did:
THIS TEXT AND THE ONE BESIDE IT ARE EQUAL. I WROTE THIS ONE FIRST, AND THEN I GAVE IT TO MY FRIEND CHRISTIAN BOK AND ASKED HIM TO GENERATE A NEW TEXT USING EVERY LETTER AND EVERY PUNCTUATION MARK THAT I USED IN MINE. THE OTHER TEXT IS HIS.
= 49
, = 1
. = 3
A = 14
B = 2
C = 2
D = 8
E = 29
F = 2
G = 3
H = 10
I = 19
K = 3
L = 2
M = 4
N = 16
O = 8
P = 1
Q = 1
R = 11
S = 10
T = 26
U = 5
V = 3
W = 2
X = 3
Y = 3
And the second one:
MICAH LEXIER REQUESTED IN ADVANCE THAT I REINVENT HIS TEXT. SO I UNKNOTTED IT AND REKNITTED IT INTO THIS VERY FORM, BUT THEN I BEGAN TO THINK THAT HIS MESSAGE HAD ALREADY RESEWN A TOUTED ART OF GENUINE POETRY. HIS EERIE TEXT WAS MINE.
= 43
, = 1
. = 3
A = 14
B = 2
C = 2
D = 8
E = 29
F = 2
G = 3
H = 10
I = 19
K = 3
L = 2
M = 4
N = 16
O = 8
P = 1
Q = 1
R = 11
S = 10
T = 26
U = 5
V = 3
W = 2
X = 3
Y = 3 - CynicalTyler, on 09/25/2009, -0/+254I don't know how this became the learning about letters thread, but I can't resist:
Our "th" sound (as in "the", "theater", etc.) came from the Norse letter thorn which was eventually written similar to Y (and sometimes replaced by Y in early printing presses). This is why in Middle English you see signs like "Ye Olde Pub". "Ye" would have been pronounced "the". So next time you're at a Renaissance Festival, punch someone in the face. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 09/25/2009, -3/+211True. A quick check of uncommon letters (W, X, Y, and U) matches though. A perl script could do a full check relatively easily but I'm too lazy.
- DaneGleesac, on 09/25/2009, -0/+176that is ***** incredible.
- danr2c2, on 09/25/2009, -2/+156I DON'T KNOW WHAT MICAH AND CHRISTIAN ARE YELLING ABOUT!
- merreborn, on 09/25/2009, -0/+152Really, your conclusion stands on its own:
Next time you're at a Renaissance Festival, punch someone in the face. - ayeroxor, on 09/25/2009, -2/+144A manager's area meows
- iheartbakon, on 09/25/2009, -0/+122How DID you get that BACKWARDS b?
- desertDenizen, on 09/25/2009, -0/+120Welcome to the interwebs, where weeks are hours.
- Snoogs, on 09/25/2009, -1/+96*****... you did it the easy way... and to think I wasted my whole lunch break with a print out, a pair of scissors, and a lighter.
- cecilpl, on 09/25/2009, -2/+90Quick and dirty Python:
text1 = "THIS TEXT AND THE ONE BESIDE IT ARE EQUAL. I WROTE THIS ONE FIRST, AND THEN I GAVE IT TO MY FRIEND CHRISTIAN BOK AND ASKED HIM TO GENERATE A NEW TEXT USING EVERY LETTER AND EVERY PUNCTUATION MARK THAT I USED IN MINE. THE OTHER TEXT IS HIS."
text2 = "MICAH LEXIER REQUESTED IN ADVANCE THAT I REINVENT HIS TEXT. SO I UNKNOTTED IT AND REKNITTED IT INTO THIS VERY FORM, BUT THEN I BEGAN TO THINK THAT HIS MESSAGE HAD ALREADY RESEWN A TOUTED ART OF GENUINE POETRY. HIS EERIE TEXT WAS MINE."
D1 = dict([(c,text1.count(c)) for c in set(text1)])
D2 = dict([(c,text2.count(c)) for c in set(text2)])
print D1
print D2 - bkraj, on 09/25/2009, -2/+89Boy it's a good thing I don't go to reddit then!
***** off. - predatorpasta, on 09/25/2009, -4/+91good to see the 4 people above me know about wordsmith
for the rest of you, http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html - ljohnblaze, on 09/25/2009, -4/+88digg users so damn smart ;-)
- clacasse, on 09/25/2009, -8/+89Or you could use Python. Then we'd actually be able to tell, by looking at the code, if the script did what it was supposed to do :)
- lynx44, on 09/25/2009, -8/+81Anal Bumcover
- ianzu, on 09/25/2009, -1/+71I spent my afternoon hurling loose tiles at 26 pissed-off squirrels. I'm not certain why.
- Stinkylicious, on 09/25/2009, -2/+68RACECAR
Oh wait. Different word game today. - techdever, on 09/25/2009, -4/+67The shadow looks like an alien with a large penis
- RealmDown, on 09/25/2009, -3/+58A Manager Aromas Ewes
- bakerac, on 09/25/2009, -2/+56Anagrams, as a mere woe.
- bryceman111, on 09/25/2009, -0/+54LOUD NOISES!
- detcade, on 09/25/2009, -0/+52Or:
text1 = sorted("THIS TEXT AND THE ONE BESIDE IT ARE EQUAL. I WROTE THIS ONE FIRST, AND THEN I GAVE IT TO MY FRIEND CHRISTIAN BOK AND ASKED HIM TO GENERATE A NEW TEXT USING EVERY LETTER AND EVERY PUNCTUATION MARK THAT I USED IN MINE. THE OTHER TEXT IS HIS.".split(''))
text2 = sorted("MICAH LEXIER REQUESTED IN ADVANCE THAT I REINVENT HIS TEXT. SO I UNKNOTTED IT AND REKNITTED IT INTO THIS VERY FORM, BUT THEN I BEGAN TO THINK THAT HIS MESSAGE HAD ALREADY RESEWN A TOUTED ART OF GENUINE POETRY. HIS EERIE TEXT WAS MINE.".split(''))
print text1 == text2 - XorpheusX, on 09/25/2009, -1/+49A seaman reamer was go
- muffinmonk, on 09/25/2009, -3/+48That comment was stolen. Originally, it was from an article having to do with 3.14 looking like PIE backwards.
Bury me down.
/spoilsport - KingGorilla, on 09/25/2009, -0/+45The letter O was derived from the Semitic `Ayin (eye), which represented a consonant, the sound represented by the Arabic letter ع called `Ayn. This Semitic letter in its original form seems to have been inspired by a similar Egyptian hieroglyph for "eye"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O#History - plainOldFool, on 09/25/2009, -0/+44Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.
- DarthVolta, on 09/25/2009, -3/+45Pretty cool idea. I bet they had a few rough drafts go back and forth though. Eliminating a letter here and there if it couldn't be used in either the first or the second version.
- shakabrah, on 09/25/2009, -0/+40Schmucks tote semen.
- Intervene, on 09/25/2009, -1/+41LOL Awesome work man
- Feener, on 09/25/2009, -4/+41I can't believe I just wasted half an hour of my life crossing letters off in paint to confirm it.
- copypastry, on 09/25/2009, -0/+37merreborn - really, your conclusion stands on its own:
Punch someone in the face. - merrifie, on 09/25/2009, -1/+37The left side has more spaces. Other than that they have the same letters and punctuation.
- zahngol, on 09/25/2009, -0/+34Wow this is *exactly* equal to comments made on every other digg article...
- inactive, on 09/26/2009, -0/+33I'm guessing the first guy's name isn't really Micah Lexier. I bet that name was created with the leftover letters. Just a guess.
Edit: Doh! Micah Lexier is a real person. He's an artist. I should have Googled it *before* posting. Excuse me while I feel like an ass and eat my words... OM NOM NOM. - Frostek, on 09/25/2009, -0/+32When you put a X as a kiss at the end of a note, you're actually writing the Elder Germanic rune "Gyfu", which represents the concept of "gift".
- randomerratum, on 09/25/2009, -5/+37Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- AquilloCometh, on 09/25/2009, -3/+35easier:
$ cat test0.txt | fold -w1 |sort |uniq -c > res0.txt
$ cat test1.txt | fold -w1 |sort |uniq -c > res1.txt
$ diff --side-by-side res0.txt res1.txt
- iheartbakon, on 09/26/2009, -0/+32Yat's nice.
- bitweever, on 09/25/2009, -1/+32My Perl's a bit rusty, but this would work if anyone wants to feed it in:
perl -e 'foreach (<>) { foreach (split(//)) { $letter{$_}++; }} foreach $key (sort keys %letter){print "$key = $letter{$key}\n"}' - AlexanderSavage, on 09/25/2009, -1/+31If only I had read this before going to the Renaissance Festival last weekend.
- Jough, on 09/25/2009, -5/+35Seeing that CCB0x45 has received a positive number of diggs, we can conclude that the majority of digg users are absolutely clueless when it comes to selecting the correct language for a task. Why on earth would you use a web scripting language to figure this out when (as cecilpl pointed out) it is a simple one-liner in python?
God damned script kiddies... - EnTaroTassadar, on 09/25/2009, -2/+32Funny. "submitted by euyakuza 7 hr 36 min ago". Looks like we beat Reddit this time, whiner.
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