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Haïkuleaks: Cable is poetry 65 haikus in 1830 cables

29 points by aheilbut 16y ago

swixmix 16y ago
This looks like fun, but you do realize some of these Haiku's could cause serious damage to US national security. Don't you? (The appropriate answer, I think, is "I can't confirm or deny.")
paulgerhardt 16y ago
Technically these are, for the most part, Senryū not Haiku. The difference (in a nutshell) being that Haiku tend to deal with seasonal scenes from nature with a "cutting" word that provokes discord (the syllable thing really isn't that important), while Senryū depict "human foibles". Seen in that light makes these excerpts somewhat more profound. Arguing about this is somewhat akin to debating about "Hackers" vs "Crackers" in contemporary usage... See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB
abecedarius 16y ago
I just ran a iambic-pentameter finder over the same data: A DATE BEFORE WHICH NORIEGA MUST FALL IF THE U S DOES NOT WISH TO HAVE THE PRECEDENT OF AN ANNULLED ELECTION NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MANY ACTIVISTS ESPECIALLY YOUTH WHO FEAR A SELL OUT OF THEIR CAUSE THERE HE EMPHASIZED THAT THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE A CARROT FOR MUGABE TO ENDORSE COUP THAT REMOVES MUGABE POSSIBLY WITH A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED FROM WHICH IT THE PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING CHANGE BEFORE THE SITUATION GETS WORSE HE PROFESSED USE LETHAL FORCE ON DEMONSTRATORS AND WE URGE THE OPPOSITION NOT TO GET been branded mercenaries terrorists or traitors End Note On the other hand IRAN MANIPULATING INDIAN ELITE OPINION MAKERS Classified to peer file sharing caused grave damages She said that peer to peer file sharing must be curbed By POL MC Josiah Rosenblatt for Reasons 1 4 b and d 1 S important means to signal willingness to reconcile with former enemies is taking active steps to undermine it Many opposition groups are prone to dominance by individuals to help the government achieve those aims the middle class has largely been ignored who worked inside the final conflict zone the government declared no fire zone Brazilian Embassy in Washington received a bomb threat via telephone is almost always framed in socialist and revolutionary rhetoric
- c-oreills 16y ago
  Which Iambic Pentameter finder is this? I'd be interested to know how it works out syllables, especially for proper nouns - for example, how does it know that Mugabe is "Mu-ga-be" as opposed to "Mu-gabe"? A large dictionary?
  - abecedarius 16y ago
    https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py -- it uses the CMU pronouncing dictionary and just punts on words not in it. I'd like to go back and improve it sometime. (The test passage there is from The Lord of the Rings.)
- iwwr 16y ago
  That sounds awesome, do you have source code available?
  - abecedarius 16y ago
    Thanks! https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py Results from a scan over some Gutenberg Project novels and Lord of the Rings at http://darius.livejournal.com/48525.html http://darius.livejournal.com/48525.html

29 points by aheilbut 16y ago

This looks like fun, but you do realize some of these Haiku's could cause serious damage to US national security. Don't you? (The appropriate answer, I think, is "I can't confirm or deny.")

paulgerhardt 16y ago

Technically these are, for the most part, Senryū not Haiku. The difference (in a nutshell) being that Haiku tend to deal with seasonal scenes from nature with a "cutting" word that provokes discord (the syllable thing really isn't that important), while Senryū depict "human foibles". Seen in that light makes these excerpts somewhat more profound. Arguing about this is somewhat akin to debating about "Hackers" vs "Crackers" in contemporary usage... See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB

abecedarius 16y ago

I just ran a iambic-pentameter finder over the same data: A DATE BEFORE WHICH NORIEGA MUST FALL IF THE U S DOES NOT WISH TO HAVE THE PRECEDENT OF AN ANNULLED ELECTION NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MANY ACTIVISTS ESPECIALLY YOUTH WHO FEAR A SELL OUT OF THEIR CAUSE THERE HE EMPHASIZED THAT THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE A CARROT FOR MUGABE TO ENDORSE COUP THAT REMOVES MUGABE POSSIBLY WITH A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED FROM WHICH IT THE PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING CHANGE BEFORE THE SITUATION GETS WORSE HE PROFESSED USE LETHAL FORCE ON DEMONSTRATORS AND WE URGE THE OPPOSITION NOT TO GET been branded mercenaries terrorists or traitors End Note On the other hand IRAN MANIPULATING INDIAN ELITE OPINION MAKERS Classified to peer file sharing caused grave damages She said that peer to peer file sharing must be curbed By POL MC Josiah Rosenblatt for Reasons 1 4 b and d 1 S important means to signal willingness to reconcile with former enemies is taking active steps to undermine it Many opposition groups are prone to dominance by individuals to help the government achieve those aims the middle class has largely been ignored who worked inside the final conflict zone the government declared no fire zone Brazilian Embassy in Washington received a bomb threat via telephone is almost always framed in socialist and revolutionary rhetoric

c-oreills 16y ago
Which Iambic Pentameter finder is this? I'd be interested to know how it works out syllables, especially for proper nouns - for example, how does it know that Mugabe is "Mu-ga-be" as opposed to "Mu-gabe"? A large dictionary?
- abecedarius 16y ago
  https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py -- it uses the CMU pronouncing dictionary and just punts on words not in it. I'd like to go back and improve it sometime. (The test passage there is from The Lord of the Rings.)
iwwr 16y ago
That sounds awesome, do you have source code available?
- abecedarius 16y ago
  Thanks! https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py https://github.com/darius/versecop/blob/master/passages.py Results from a scan over some Gutenberg Project novels and Lord of the Rings at http://darius.livejournal.com/48525.html http://darius.livejournal.com/48525.html