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Linguistic / Grammatical puzzle - Warning: Long!
Posted 30 August 2007 - 11:04 PM
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Posted 30 August 2007 - 11:16 PM
there are exactly 26 sentences
each misses the letter of that letter in the alphabet
I looked at that possibility in my post above.
[1] I count 50 sentences, not 26
[2] The third sentence has a "c" in the word "called" -- to wit:
Sentence 1:
I've spent the previous hour or so discovering one interesting property concerning linguistics.
[no a b f j k m q v w x z - 11 missing letters] - No "A"
Sentence 2:
It's given me much enjoyment while writing the text you're viewing just now.
[no a b c d f g k p q z - 10 missing leters] - No "B"
Sentence 3:
Noted as far in the past as 1853, I speak of a unique literary marvel called the lipogram.
[no b h j w x z - 6 missing letters] - Alas, there's a "C"
Is that the way you count the sentences?
It looks like you have two sentences as your first sentence.
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Posted 31 August 2007 - 12:57 AM
I've spent the previous hour or so discovering one interesting property concerning linguistics.
It's given me much enjoyment while writing the text you're viewing just now.
Noted as far in the past as 1853, I speak of a unique literary marvel called the lipogram.
Let me further enlighten you on this matter.
Works of Shakespear and even the Bible have been rewriten in lipogram form and there exists a fairy tale entitled Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn.
It tells the story of a country where certain letters begin to be outlawed.
Letters vanish within the story as well as the books' text, simultaneously!
This is lipogrammation at its top and shows skill from said author.
For at points, lipograms prohibit and limit wordflow and linguistic ability a high amount.
Another humorous example is of a Mr Gottlob Burmann, an eccentric German, 18th century poet who had an obsessive dislike in relation to the letter R.
He wrote some 130 poems without using the letter once!
Not only that but Mr Burmann omitted the letter from his daily conversation for 17 years!
A strange trait it certainly was, and may seem incredible to you, but to make it more peculiar still: Consider, for a moment Mr Burmanns last name.
Correct, there's an R there!
So how could Mr Burmann express ones own last name?
He could not!
And so was forced to use a pen!
Another example still is that of Brandreth, a British lipogrammarian who specializes in rewriting works of Shakespear in lipogram form.
He rewrote Othello excluding letter O.
He rewrote Twelth Night without the letters I and O and Macbeth, excluding both A and E.
Most interesting though, was his unique version of Hamlet.
Which dropped every I.
This wasn't a problem for the witty character though, who instead pondered: "To be or not to be, that is the query."
Finally, consider Tryphiodorus, a poet of ancient Greece who wrote the epic Odyssey which was a chronicle of the adventures of Ulysses.
These chronicles totalled 24.
As you may be aware the Greek alphabet has 24 letters, and for each of the 24 books of Odyssey Tryphiodorus removed the relative Greek character.
Thus the first tale was written entirely excluding the letter Alpha, the next excluded Beta, Gamma, and such.
Indeed this may be the earliest established instance.
As you can see it requires great skill and attention to detail.
In that sense, it is not entirely unlike Haiku, they both have similar restraints.
Haikus differ by placing a 3 line limit and a further restriction on the number of sounds or syllables on each line, five, seven and five respecitvely.
So they both have tight limits in place which demand dedication and attention, and the good ones will take much time and skill to complete.
Anyway, I have veered from the main point which I will now admit.
An alternative motive can be found in the creation of the current text.
Objective number one, I'll reveal, is simply: show off lipograms, and uses in periods gone.
My secondary is here for your discovery, in words before you.
Objective two was to create my own lipogram (of sorts) from the text and sentences on this very page.
I've almost completed the task, I hope.
You see the fairy tale I mentioned earlier inspired me to try something similar, and while it's almost complete, I can't help but stop and reflect.
On Mr Burnmann.
For unlike the others he didn't chose his affliction and so developed his skill as a side effect.
Though he's better for it!
His problem forced him to engage his brain and write within constraints and restrictions.
In doing so it created a unique poet and an interesting story.
Alas, I digress again.
Suffice to state that the lipogram is a unique and interesting application of written language (it can be applied to all languages).
It's been in use for centuries and hides between the words until it suddenly dawns and smacks you in the face.
Good luck finding one here.
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Posted 31 August 2007 - 01:39 AM
OK, this time I counted '!' and '?' as entence endings. So, I believe the correct count is 48 sentences. I do agree that the third sentence has a 'c' in it. I tried looking for simialr patterns, but did not see any.
I agree with your sentence count.
I got 50 by counting the two ":"'s as sentence parsers - because he began the following clauses with capital letters.
But I think that does not signify a new sentence, technically, and 48 is the correct count.
Another thing i did was look at the paragraph breaks
Paragraph 1 -- [no a b f q z - 4 missing letters]
Paragraph 2 -- [no z - 1 missing letter]
Paragraph 3 -- [no j q z - 3 missing letters]
I gave up on paragraphs after the 3rd.
I think a strong clue is that he said he tried to do something like what was done in the fairy tale,
where letters were progressively outlawed.
That is, a progressive disappearance of letters.
But I didn't see any evidence of that.
I'm actually getting to like this one ...
and I am very interested to see if someone cracks it.
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Vidi vici veni.
Posted 31 August 2007 - 08:09 AM
Well done to unreality who was basically correct except for 'sentences'. And also to bonanova who has come very close a couple of times but unfortunately was JUST off each time.
Further clue:
unreality mentioned the number 26, very important.
Oh and the Shakespeare quote should read "To be or not to be, that's the query."
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Posted 31 August 2007 - 02:02 PM
so the idea is 26 -- there are 26 LINE BREAKS -- well, 25 line breaks;
26 lines of text, each spanning perhaps more than a single sentence.
So we parse by line breaks rather than by periods -- alluded to perhaps
by the clue: "show off lipograms, and uses in periods gone.]"
Then there's the clue about Tryphiodorus .. where the 24 Odyssey chronicles
were missing the corresponding greek letter. And in the 9th line, corresponding
to the letter I, he goes out of his way to avoid that letter
by saying is was difficult to express one's own name
instead of the more natural his own name.
But that approach, hoped for by unreality and me, doesn't work:
Lines 4,12, 14 and 20 contain, respectively, d, l, n and t.
Here are the lines, with the number and corresponding letter in parens.
Now, he said I came close but no cigar a couple times.
That could mean his allusion to the letter manipulation in the fairy tale:
Ella Minnow Pea, where letters are progressively outlawed until finally only
LMNOP [hence the title!] remain in use.
But I don't see a restricted letter set in the author's narrative.
Finally, perhaps we should give attention to his paragraph breaks.
Look at: ... I can't help but stop and reflect.
[new paragraph]
On Mr Burnmann.
What's that all about ... ? certainly an unnatural way to break up a thought.
There are nine paragraphs. Nine doesn't seem significant.
In my first post, I looked at missing letters by paragraph and stopped
after the 3rd because no pattern was apparent.
Still scratching my head.
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Posted 31 August 2007 - 04:10 PM
I am also looking forward to seeing the solution to this puzzle.
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Posted 31 August 2007 - 05:49 PM
Great observation!
each of the 26 line breaks, are made up of 26 words
A 26 x 26 array of words.
Unfortunately A's are not missing from the 1st column, etc.
But this gives us something new to look at.
Nice job.
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Vidi vici veni.
Posted 31 August 2007 - 06:32 PM
And so the solution:
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Posted 31 August 2007 - 07:29 PM
Bravo regardless. you certainly engaged a number of us for a while!
I must first apologize profusely for not proof reading my puzzle before submitting it. As such I've frustrated and annoyed you all. The method proposed by bonanova and unreality WERE correct, it was just that I messed things up by not proof reading.
As far as proofreading goes, it's difficult at best, and yours was
more challenging than most.
I was about to post the following, but it probably falls into the proofreading
category, as well, and [obviously now] is not a step toward the solution.
Line [12I] has 25 words - probably from shortening "that is" to "that's"
Line [17Q] "Haikus ..." has 27 words.
Line [18R] "So they ..." has just 25.
You must have had fun putting this one together.
Hope you do more.
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You get exactly as much as you put into it." - Desiree Davilla
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A tall soy mocha.
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Rushmore and Lonesome Dove.
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Killer Bees come to town in key matchup
CORPUS CHRISTI - After perhaps their most emotional weekend of the season, there is no let-up for the IceRays.
Corpus Christi is back on the ice tonight, and the stakes continue to rise.
The Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees visit the American Bank Center for a game with playoff ramifications. The IceRays (15-16-5, 35 points) trail the Bees (16-15-4, 36) and Amarillo (15-17-6, 36) by one point in the race for the fifth and final playoff spot in the Central Hockey League's Southern Conference, with fourth-place Laredo (16-12-7, 39) only four points ahead of Corpus Christi.
"I think (today) is going to be an emotional game as well," IceRays defenseman Kyle Peto said. "Every game until the end of the season is going to have a bit of emotion to it since we're playing for a playoff spot.
"These are the teams we need to beat, the Rios and Laredos. And we've got to steal some of the games against the teams above them. That's what's going to get us into a playoff spot."
The IceRays are coming off one of the more topsy-turvy weekends in recent franchise history. On Friday, they lost 4-3 to CHL points leader Odessa on a stunning short-handed goal with 5.7 seconds left.
But on Saturday, the IceRays shook off the devastating defeat and captured a gritty 1-0 victory at Laredo, a bounce-back effort Peto dubbed "huge."
If anything, the Odessa game may have been a mere hiccup. In their past nine games, the IceRays are 6-2-1, with both regulation losses to Odessa. In six of those games, Corpus Christi has allowed three goals or fewer. After an inconsistent first two months of the season, the IceRays seem to have found a groove since returning from their Christmas break.
"Last weekend, we played some good hockey," coach Brent Hughes said. "There's no way we shouldn't have gotten a point out of that game against Odessa. Obviously, it was a heartbreaker and shocking situation. I'm glad our guys didn't fall down the next night. We picked up right where we left off. We know it's tough to win in Laredo and to go in there and shut them out is a huge win for us.
"I think as a hockey team, we're getting better each game. I don't consider that Odessa game a step backward. We left that game playing super well and some of the mistakes cost us. If we learn quickly from those mistakes, then we're going to be ahead."
While the IceRays have been fairly consistent lately, the same can't be said for tonight's opponent. Rio is 2-5-1 in its past eight games, with some eyebrow-raising inconsistency. For example, after absorbing a 6-1 whipping from the IceRays on Jan. 8, the Bees came out the next night and scored three third-period goals for a 3-2 victory over Northern Conference leader Colorado.
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[[caption-width-right:297:The band's lineup circa 1998.]]
Mercury Rev are a psychedelic AlternativeRock[=/=]DreamPop[=/=]NoisePop band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1989. They are frequently compared to the Music/FlamingLips, since both bands experienced the same evolution from noisy, punky psychedelia to lushly orchestrated BaroquePop, Jonathan Donahue was a guitarist in the Lips for a few years early in TheNineties, and Dave Fridmann near-exclusively produces both bands.
Their initial lineup was as follows:
* David Baker - vocals
* Jonathan Donahue - guitar, vocals
* Grasshopper (Sean Mackowiak) - guitar, clarinet
* Dave Fridmann - bass, keyboards, RecordProducer
* Suzanne Thorpe - flute, horns
* [[MyNaymeIs Jimy]] Chambers - drums
This lineup produced two CultClassic albums, ''Yerself Is Steam'' (1991) and ''Boces'' (1993), which found a large audience and some chart success in the indie-rock-happy UK. The album's styles are marked by [[EpicRocking extended run-times]], ragged self-production, use of Grasshopper's homemade Tettix Wave Acumulator synth, a chaotic sound that constantly shifts between poppy accessibility and freaky guitar noisescapes, {{Word Salad Title}}s and [[WordSaladLyrics lyrics]], and the interplay between Baker's deranged, low-pitched vocals and Donahue's more [[SigurRos Jónsi]]-sounding voice.
The lineup was plagued by instability, drug abuse and CreativeDifferences, and ''Boces'' (named after New York's Boards of Cooperative Educational Services) earned infamy as a particularly TroubledProduction even by their CrazyAwesome standards - one famous story is that either Donahue or Baker tried at one point to [[EyeScream gouge out Grasshopper's eye]] [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon with a spoon]].
Baker eventually departed in 1995, and the band's next album ''See You on the Other Side'' (1995) captured the resulting transition: Baker took the noisy, confrontational side of the band's sound with him, leaving Donahue to steer the band towards a more accessible, melodic, lush BaroquePop-influenced sound. However, ''See You on the Other Side'' sank like a brick on the UK charts and attracted no attention, leaving Donahue despondent and pushing the band into a hiatus.
Mercury Rev finally regrouped to record 1998's ''Deserter's Songs'', which surprisingly became their most successful album in the UK and Europe, and gave them a minor hit with "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp". This convinced them not to disband, and they've continued making BaroquePop[=/=]PsychedelicRock albums ever since. Their lineup has also been reduced with Chambers and Thorpe leaving soon after ''Deserter's Songs'', leaving Donahue, Grasshopper, Fridmann and new drummer/pianist Jeff Mercel.
* ''Yerself Is Steam'' (1991)
* ''Boces'' (1993)
* ''See You on the Other Side'' (1995)
* ''Deserter's Songs'' (1998)
* ''All Is Dream'' (2001)[[note]]with the incredible misfortune of coming out on September 11, 2001[[/note]]
* ''The Secret Migration'' (2005)
* ''Snowflake Midnight'' and ''Strange Attractor'' (2008)
!Mercury Rev provide examples of:
* BrokenRecord: "Car Wash Hair", "Very Sleepy Rivers".
* BunnyEarsLawyer: All the members, all the time.
* CoolOldLady: According to a 1991 interview with ''Melody Maker'', Grasshopper's mother:
-->I ask Grasshopper's mother, who must be about 50-odd, if she enjoyed the show. "Oh yes," she beams, "it induced orgasm." I'm sorry? "It induced orgasm." After 36 hours in the vicinity of [[WeirdnessMagnet Mercury Rev]], [[WeirdnessCensor nothing on earth should throw me]]. This does. "Can I take your photograph?" she asks. I run away and tell Grasshopper that his band has just sexually aroused his mother. "Uh-huh," he says, like I've just asked him if he wants a beer. "She's kinda cool. And she smokes a lotta dope."
* CoverVersion: They've covered "If You Want Me to Stay" by Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone, "Shhh/Peaceful" by Music/MilesDavis, "He Was a Friend of Mine" by Music/BobDylan, "Motion Pictures" and "Philadelphia" by Music/NeilYoung, "Caroline Says Pt. II" by Music/LouReed and the standard "I Only Have Eyes For You".
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All the members, but Grasshopper most of all.
* CreepyMonotone: David Baker's singing on "Very Sleepy Rivers". He also pulls the CarefulWithThatAxe.
* DemotedToExtra: Suzanne Thorpe was credited as part of the guest orchestra from ''All Is Dream'' onwards. It was generous to credit her as a band member to begin with considering that she didn't play on every song and didn't appear with the band in interviews and photo shoots.
** David Fridmann gradually phased himself out of the band, first declining to tour with them from 1995 onwards and then quitting as bass player before 2005's ''The Secret Migration'' while continuing to produce the band's albums. However, he remained credited as the band's bass player while still a studio player, making this case an aversion.
* EpicRocking: "Chasing a Bee", "Sweet Oddysee of a Cancer Cell t' th' Center of Yer Heart", "Frittering", "Very Sleepy Rivers", "Car Wash Hair", "Meth of a Rockette's Kick", "Snorry Mouth", "Empire State (Son House In Excelsis)", "Racing the Tide", "Lincoln's Eyes", "Hercules".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: They have a cult following here in the states, but they're a lot bigger in the UK.
* HeAlsoDid: Jonathan Donahue made [[GuestStarPartyMember guest appearances]] on two Music/TheChemicalBrothers songs (he sang on "Dream On" and played additional guitar on "The Private Psychedelic Reel").
* HiddenTrack: Their previously released single "Car Wash Hair" on ''Yerself Is Steam'' (some editions list it on the back); the almost ''Zelda''-esque orchestral experiment hidden on ''Deserter's Songs''.
* IdiotBall: Fridmann stupidly wasted the band's advance on buying his mother a Bermuda vacation package, forcing them to seek assistance from [[{{Galaxie 500}} Dean Wareham]] to record "Car Wash Hair".
* IndecipherableLyrics: More than half of "Very Sleepy Rivers".
* LighterAndSofter: What they became after David Baker left.
* LoudnessWar: What Dave Fridmann does nowadays, unfortunately.
* MadnessMantra: "Very Sleepy Rivers".
* MurderBallad: In a very cryptic way, "Very Sleepy Rivers" is about a serial killer who pretends to be a [[StepfordSmiler normal person]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak.
* PersonaNonGrata: In a {{Swans}}-like example, during the Lollapalooza tour in 1993, they were thrown off the stage for being too loud and noisy.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Some of their titles are prone to this, like "Girlfren" or "Sweet Oddysee of a Cancer Cell t' th' Center of Yer Heart".
* SopranoAndGravel: In the early days, the contrast between David Baker's low-pitched mumbling and Jonathan Donahue's very high-pitched voice.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Jonathan Donahue sang a handful of songs on the first two albums before becoming full time lead vocalist after David Baker's departure.
** Grasshopper sings lead on the ''Deserter's Songs'' track "Hudson Line"
* TitleDrop: "Chasing a Bee", for ''Yerself Is Steam''.
* TroubledProduction: ''Boces'', to the point that the band refuse to play songs from it since it reminds them of the turbulent recording.
** ''Deserter's Songs'' can also qualify due to what amounts to a TraumaCongaLine. ''See You on the Other Side'' bombed, the band asked to leave their label, the manager, lawyers and original drummer left, Jonathan both broke up with a girlfriend and suffered two nervous breakdowns and the band was on the verge of total collapse. They intended ''Songs'' to more or less be a SeriesFauxnale which makes the fact that it was a HitlessHitAlbum all the more [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome.]]
* WordSaladLyrics: Baker's specialty. Jonathan Donahue did the same at first, but seems to have shifted to more straightforward lyrics recently.
* {{Word Salad Title}}s: Keepers like "Syringe Mouth", "Sweet Oddysee of a Cancer Cell t' th' Center of Yer Heart" and "Continuous Trucks and Thunder Under a Mother's Smile" almost give the Music/FlamingLips a run for their money.
-->[[TheStinger It's not as easy as it may seem, just remember that yerself is steam]]


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Rating: 5.0
By Ian Darby, campaignlive.co.uk, Monday, 29 April 2013 12:00PM
Though the figure has been adjusted down from the 4.1 per cent rise predicted in December, this is mainly because the 3.5 per cent rise in 2012 was higher than expected.
Global spend will then rise by 5 per cent during 2014 and 5.6 per cent in 2015, according to the ZenithOptimedia report.
Strong growth in emerging markets is expected to underpin the growth over the next three years, with markets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, "fast-track Asia" and Latin America growing at 10 per cent a year.
Ad spend in North America is expected to rise at between 4 and 5 per cent a year while spend in Northern and Central Europe is expected to be static during 2013 before growing by 2 per cent in 2014 and 2015.
The UK is broadly expected to grow in advance of the average for the region with forecast growth of 1.5 per cent in 2013 and 2.8 per cent in 2014. However, the UK is expected to fall from the world's fifth largest ad market in 2012, with spend of $19.5 billion, to sixth in 2015, with spend of $20.7 billion, after being leapfrogged by Brazil.
Internet advertising is expected to grow by 14 per cent each year between 2013 and 2015. However, television is also expected to grow, remaining the largest medium with a peak share of advertising of 40.4 per cent in 2013, before falling back to 40.3 per cent in 2015. This will compare to internet's share of 23.4 per cent. Newspaper share of ad revenue is expected to slide from 18.9 per cent in 2012 to 15.8 per cent in 2015.
Steve King, the global chief executive of ZenithOptimedia, said: "As the global economy strengthens, more opportunities will open up for companies to expand their businesses. Advertising is an essential tool for launching new products and entering new markets, and advertisers will increase their budgets wherever they can increase the return on their investment."
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Watch The Prestige Online
Release:October 17, 2006
RunTime:2 hr 10 min
IMDB Rating:8.5/10 (548453 votes)
Director:Christopher NolanActors:Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall(View All)
Description: Watch The Prestige full movie online for free directed by Christopher Nolan produced in 2006. Genres are Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller.
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