Never any time. Anyone who says retirement is boring obviously doesn't know me. I'm going to add the original work I did on this just in case it sparks something to tie it all up.
There is one word of 0 letters.
There are 5 words of one letter - I, a, a, a, I
There are 5 2-letter words - of, so, in, of, oh
There are 8 3-letter words - now, and, and, far, say, you, for, and
There are 4 4-letter words - held, what, what, such
There are 5 5-letter words - great, cakes, angst, crump, chaos
There are 4 6-letter words - Eccles, theses, excess, fungal
There are 3 7-letter words - conduct, journal, vocular
There are 6 8-letter words - paranoia, rhodites, tamarisk, mestizos, welcomer, anableps
There are 7 9-letter words - interview, consigned, demagogic, desirable, phantasma, consigned, desirable, geurrilla
And one 10-letter - word - coheasible.
So I'll just say, Congratulations, in 50 words, you managed to cover all these lengths of words. I suspect the answer is staring me in the face but I don't have any more time to review all the bits and pieces I found on that first morning to come up with anything better.
Ah, I need to come back to this later today. I spent quite some time on it yesterday morning (24 hours ago) looking at letters that start each word, letters that appear in each word, number of letters in each word etc. I think I’d aligned the zero letter word with the letter Q and was trying to sort out all the rest of it. I’ll find my notes later and see if a fresh viewpoint helps. I’ll need a bit more time please. Thanks.
And now I think yesterday’s work was slightly barking up the wrong tree. Although it might still have some bearing. So for anyone interested…. (Today I can see all the doubling of letters in words. There are a lot of those. And if not in words, then in phrases. And paranoia with its 3 As. Oooohhh…. I wish I had more time. I have to go feed a dog and a cockatoo then go visit an elderly friend in hospital. I’ll take my iPad with me in case I get some spare time to start annotating all those words with multiple occurrences of particular letters.)
Flipping heck, Terry, you're being pretty demanding for a Friday afternoon! At this rate I shall have to bring wine o'clock forward in hope of having sufficient mettle to tackle the challenge....!
I don't get it but I loved the videos. Thanks, Terry. Hope you are feeling better soon.
Thanks, JIm. You mean the videos in Start the Week, or am I going nuts? LOL
Yeah sorry. Maybe I’m going nuts. The Heineken one was wild.
It was insane, wasn't it 🤣🤣
Yes it truly was. I actually forwarded it to my son who directs commercials. It was very clever.
😂 I'd love to hear what he says
Never any time. Anyone who says retirement is boring obviously doesn't know me. I'm going to add the original work I did on this just in case it sparks something to tie it all up.
There is one word of 0 letters.
There are 5 words of one letter - I, a, a, a, I
There are 5 2-letter words - of, so, in, of, oh
There are 8 3-letter words - now, and, and, far, say, you, for, and
There are 4 4-letter words - held, what, what, such
There are 5 5-letter words - great, cakes, angst, crump, chaos
There are 4 6-letter words - Eccles, theses, excess, fungal
There are 3 7-letter words - conduct, journal, vocular
There are 6 8-letter words - paranoia, rhodites, tamarisk, mestizos, welcomer, anableps
There are 7 9-letter words - interview, consigned, demagogic, desirable, phantasma, consigned, desirable, geurrilla
And one 10-letter - word - coheasible.
So I'll just say, Congratulations, in 50 words, you managed to cover all these lengths of words. I suspect the answer is staring me in the face but I don't have any more time to review all the bits and pieces I found on that first morning to come up with anything better.
Well done Professor Terry
Beth, you're AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! 🙌
awesome but wrong. <snigger>
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Great analysis, Beth. Thanks for sharing. It's not the answer though 😶
NO WAAAAAAAY????!!!!!!!!!!! 🤯
<guffaw>
Astonishing and nonsensicle. I like it!
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Ah, I need to come back to this later today. I spent quite some time on it yesterday morning (24 hours ago) looking at letters that start each word, letters that appear in each word, number of letters in each word etc. I think I’d aligned the zero letter word with the letter Q and was trying to sort out all the rest of it. I’ll find my notes later and see if a fresh viewpoint helps. I’ll need a bit more time please. Thanks.
I like that you're taking it so seriously and being so methodical!
And now I think yesterday’s work was slightly barking up the wrong tree. Although it might still have some bearing. So for anyone interested…. (Today I can see all the doubling of letters in words. There are a lot of those. And if not in words, then in phrases. And paranoia with its 3 As. Oooohhh…. I wish I had more time. I have to go feed a dog and a cockatoo then go visit an elderly friend in hospital. I’ll take my iPad with me in case I get some spare time to start annotating all those words with multiple occurrences of particular letters.)
Yesterday’s analysis for anyone interested:
A - 32 (9 words STARTING with a)
B - 4. (0)
C - 14 (6)
D - 8. (2)
E - 24 (2)
F - 5. (3)
G - 7 (2)
H - 11 (1)
I - 15 (4)
J - 1 (1)
K - 2. (0)
L - 13 (0)
M - 6 (1)
N - 16 (2)
O - 20 (3)
P - 5 (2)
Q - 0 (1 zero length word)
R - 14 (1)
S - 20. (2)
T - 11 (2)
U - 8 (0)
V - 2. (2)
W - 5. (3)
X - 1 (0)
Y - 2. (1)
Z - 1. (0)
Absolutely no idea. But it sounds good out loud.
You read it aloud? Wish you'd recorded that. Chortle
I thought it might help me make sense of it....
I loved this approach of yours, June! I've been wracking my brains for yonks over this and as yet there is NO making sense of it......!!!!!!!!!
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Love it! And love that school of restraint writing. I put an Oulipian poem in my latest novel.
Just for funzies I also once tried to get ChatGPT to write one and it failed miserably and couldn’t seem to follow the rules!
Thanks, Charlotte. Oulipian poem? Sounds great. Is that in Acid Christmas? I tried using ChatGPT for Oulipo too, and it was hopeless.
Yep! It sure is.
I am left quite baffled by this, Terry. It's got a great flow and strangeness to it, though. Sort of Lewis Carroll-y.
Do enlighten us when you can.
Hope you're feeling better!
I will put people out of their misery soon. Thanks, Nathan. Still coughing, but less so.
You do not use the word "the"
These lines could also be scattered into various chapters of a new edition of Ulysses and no one would be the wiser.
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Teehee.
I’ve Escaped into a baffled world. I always enjoy your writing even if I don’t understand it.
Thanks. Do you think I understand it? Chortle
I don't get it. But I kind of like it. ( Sort of like my second husband...)
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I don’t get it either but like the flow.
Yes, it has a certain something
I'm stumped and tapping out!
Chortle
Flipping heck, Terry, you're being pretty demanding for a Friday afternoon! At this rate I shall have to bring wine o'clock forward in hope of having sufficient mettle to tackle the challenge....!
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Sorry! I'm starting to feel a bit better ie not coughing all the time, so this was my way of celebrating!
Sounds great, but heck, do you have to take it out on us?!!!
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