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The spelling checker always suggests me that I should change "Emanuela'" by "Emasculate". Today for the first time I have seen the meaning ! I hate it!
Ciao ( or cicada, as it suggests)
Emanuela
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My sympathies, emanuela, but don't let Aenigma [Aeolus] get to you. I'm sure this advice would be supported by my good friends tub, fishpond, bingo, wrangle, Capital Klan and awad(!).
Aside to jmh: Yours works well, Jo!
Here's a challenge. Let's turn our spell-checker into a feature rather than an object of derision.
Come up with a posting that makes sense as written but also as corrected by Aenigma. Marks for frequency of spelling substitution as well as pithy one-liners with cleverly-corrected keywords. Extra marks for humour. (Not a very precise definition of the rules, I know, but you would have stretched them anyway!)
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>Aside to jmh: Yours works well, Jo
Your spell checked post is below.
jmh [Jo]
To which the only reply is WOW[wrangle]
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Isn't it interesting, though, that the spell-checker for a board such as ours, which can be language-focussed on bad days, should perform even more abysmally than Micro$loth Word's? It's an [Aeoleus] to me, that's fur sure!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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The monster is difficult to provoke, as I found to my disappointment, after several abortive attempts. Common names seem to be its favored diet. From Horace to Mephistopheles, form Chaplin to Carnegie, they are in there.
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The monster is difficult to provoke...
Yes, I think my challenge is doomed. The timing wasn't great either, coinciding with a period of frenetic posting and pre-Christmas madness.
Perhaps we're best to enjoy the occasional serendipity of Aenigma's quirks. I thought its rendition of Faldage's "hiragana and katakana of Japanese" into Hiram and Kate was cute.
Oh, and Aenigma says to wish Merry Yagi to you all.
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Dere's just one ting I don't unnerstand, if you don't mind my asking. Enigma it leaves untouched and Aenigma becomes Aeolus. Now dat I can understand 'cause my wife always used to tell me dat she tought dat I was a big inscootable (whatever dat means) bag o' wind. But what I don' unnerstand is how it turns Ænigma inta nihilism. Dat's what's really buggin me. No, no, you jus go back to talkin about langwidge, dat's OK, Don' mind me. I jus get ta wonderin about dese tings.
(Peter) Faldage Falk
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It doesn't recognize the ae run together as a character in its alphabet, so what it sees is nigma, the next word in its list after that is nihilism.
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>It doesn't recognize the ae run together as a character in its alphabet, so what it sees is nigma, the next word in its list after that is nihilism.
this, of course, is the logical answer. but in the world of enigma, this is the output of the floccinaucinihilipilification routine (run that through enigma once or twice).
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Marty … You're challenge is not doomed but Aenigma is not easy to play with. It is very difficult to get something that makes sense both ways. So I settled for Aenigmatic sense and our nonsense, which in some parts makes gutter sense… but it was not something I could control ...
P.S. My respect for Aenigma now knows no bounds. This is my mad dance to its tune ..
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