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Love me some dadaist word games. I wrote code to apply Oulipo's S+7 game (replace each noun in a text with the noun seven words later in the dictionary) to the
by vessenes 2y ago
Love me some dadaist word games. I wrote code to apply Oulipo's S+7 game (replace each noun in a text with the noun seven words later in the dictionary) to the wizard of Oz in one of my Comparative Lit translation courses.
I had an extremely slow Perl program chugging through a dict file when Michael Radwin who lived down the hall from me came by and taught me some basic algorithms -- he said "just make a hash table with the +7th word in it; you can do it in one pass over the dict file." Mind blown.
I got an A; Auntie Emasculation and Uncle Haphaestus were a hit.
- low_tech_love 2y agoAre you sure Auntie Emasculation is not real? I feel like I’ve met at least a couple of them…
- vessenes 2y agoS+7 offers precisely this sort of serendipity surprisingly often!