X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=deb_pkgs%2Fscowl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=6%2Fr%2Fenable-sup%2Freadme;fp=6%2Fr%2Fenable-sup%2Freadme;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=d3ea43b9fe191af3ea3f687a81ab1a1900a848b1;hb=b13ea8a082364672c6de2b010e558211ff52ec9a;hpb=01534a94130c1f5a3a230cf4fe18365a235ba271 diff --git a/6/r/enable-sup/readme b/6/r/enable-sup/readme deleted file mode 100644 index d3ea43b..0000000 --- a/6/r/enable-sup/readme +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ - WHY ARE THESE WORD LISTS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER LISTS? - -Alan Beale painstakingly compiled the word lists in this package based on -the appearance of words in standard dictionaries. This would appear to be -similar to the work of Official Word List Committee (the one affiliated -with a certain anagramming board game players association and a certain -large toy corporation). The difference is that Alan documented his work, -and the documentation is here for all to see. His lucid documentation is, -in many ways, more interesting than the word lists themselves. - -Anagramming can be a addictive activity. Yet, what brings it truly alive -is a passion for language, for the words themselves, for their meaning and -derivation, for their essence. As a purely mechanical exercise in letter -permutation, anagramming reduces to a dry-as-dust intellectual exercise, -and one in which brute-force computer algorithms are superior to even -the most talented humans. This is why it's so important to dig beneath -the superficial letter patterns, and why a printed unannotated list -(even with "official" imprimatur) is, at best, a tool with a dull edge. - -Hence, these lists. - - - -Mendel Cooper