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NufCed · Post by **NufCed** » 03 Jun 2005 00:11

Can you name a word the has 3 consecutive double letters in it?

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 03 Jun 2005 02:02

Yes.

What? You wanted me to actually name the word? Well then, why didn't you ask? <rot reason="spoiler">obbxxrrcre</rot>

In the same vein: What is the longest English word with only one vowel?

LKRaider · Post by **LKRaider** » 03 Jun 2005 02:50

obbxxrrcre ? wtf

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 03 Jun 2005 02:52

Your ROT13 is weak, LKRaider.

LKRaider · Post by **LKRaider** » 03 Jun 2005 03:31

Lol, and to think I actually tried +1 and -1 in my head to see if it was something like that

oh and, HINT: <warning rot=ascii> 9EEAi^^>6>36CD]2@=]4@>^8F=79:89a^H@C5Dc]9E>= </warning>

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 03 Jun 2005 08:18

Ugh @ the name of the topic. *edity edity*

The Fjonis · Post by **The Fjonis** » 03 Jun 2005 09:12

In Norwegian we have this word: angstskrik. Loosely translated it means something like a 'scream of fear'. Beat that!

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 03 Jun 2005 09:20

I like the English word onomatopoeia. Four consecutive different vowels

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Paranoid Android · Post by **Paranoid Android** » 03 Jun 2005 09:45

DaleStan wrote:Yes.

What? You wanted me to actually name the word? Well then, why didn't you ask? <rot reason="spoiler">obbxxrrcre</rot>

In the same vein: What is the longest English word with only one vowel?

Rhythm.

DominionSpy · Post by **DominionSpy** » 03 Jun 2005 11:09

Paranoid Android wrote:Rhythm.

Y is a half-vowel, as is W. You could also have said Rhythms to make it longer

DaleStan wrote:In the same vein: What is the longest English word with only one vowel?

Is it strengths?

Longest word where all the vowels are the same:
strengthlessnesses ( 18 )

What is the shortest English word with the five vowels in order (ie it has a, e, i, o, and u once each and in that order, but not necessarily all in a row)?

gkirilov · Post by **gkirilov** » 03 Jun 2005 14:18

@DominionSpy
arsenious and some more but i can not remember them now.

bookkeeper ... balloonneer

something interesting from me:
1. give me a synonym for "thesaurus"
2. what's the word with 2 opposite meanings?

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 03 Jun 2005 15:02

What's with that rot stuff?

Wile E. Coyote · Post by **Wile E. Coyote** » 03 Jun 2005 17:04

Is it acceptable something like 'Mississippi'?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 03 Jun 2005 18:19

Steve wrote:What's with that rot stuff?

ROT13 = Replace each letter by the one 13 letters away in the alphabet, e.g. A<->N, B<->O, M<->Z

Wile E. Coyote wrote:Is it acceptable something like 'Mississippi'?

No, the double letters are not consecutive.

Lilman424 · Post by **Lilman424** » 03 Jun 2005 19:14

I like ROT26 better. In fact, i read this article once about how almost every sentence someone speaks in English, if you ROT26, it's still a legible sentence! amazing!

LKRaider · Post by **LKRaider** » 03 Jun 2005 19:22

I wonder if anyone unrotted my message...

<hint> The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything + 5 </hint>

Menno · Post by **Menno** » 03 Jun 2005 19:27

forty-two and five makes forty-seven

LKRaider · Post by **LKRaider** » 03 Jun 2005 19:35

Okay, now check my earlier post

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 03 Jun 2005 19:43

LKRaider wrote:I wonder if anyone unrotted my message...

I did (didn't need the hint either, just a bit of experimenting where exactly your range of ASCII characters is supposed to end), although you should've removed the spaces around it (they're slightly confusing, and not part of the message). Here's another one in the same vein: <rot type=ascii>m9EEAi^^HHH]C:?<H@C<D]4@>^H@C5D^</rot>

[PS: Yay for 30 bytes of Perl code!]

Menno · Post by **Menno** » 03 Jun 2005 19:46

i still don't get any of this stuff... maybe i'm too un-nerdish

a 'brain teaser' that i like is the image puzzle which most of you should already have completed, but have you also passed the 2nd, 3rd and 4th puzzle?

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