Posted by John Nichols on April 14, 2005 at 14:14:29 from 165.91.196.105 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: DUFFER - in posted by Jon on April 14, 2005 at 12:52:35:
Yes I was struck by the turnaround with the development of the noun first.
Probably someone was calling someone something else and maybe slipped and invented a new word. I do it occasionally in the middle of exicted speech, I reverse the first letters on two words. Some times I think it is a subconcious dig at the person I am talking to at the time.
Now sitting here I can not think of the one I dropped yesterday, it is hard to do it conciously and make some perverse inverted sense.
I saw a program once in the old Scientific American that broke words into trigraphs and got the statistical distribution of the trigraphs and then randomly generated sentences from the statistical data. It read really nicely but made absolutely no sense whatsoever. (The SA writer used Shakespeare as the main input file.)
Anyway got to go learn ACCESS.
Any one read the duffer story by Knight - he was lucky to live, or is it just my imagination.
JMN