Re: [FWP] Limnophilous (was: The Perl Golf Apocalypse Experience)

[Ariel Scolnicov <ariels@compugen.co.il>]

Ilmari Karonen <iltzu@sci.fi> writes:

[...]

[Finding words with 4 adjacent consecutive letters]

> "limnophilous" (anyone with a big dic care to quote a definition?) 

Not to start a language war, and hopelessly off-topic, but I think all
Perl lovers should switch to Hebrew.  Like Perl, it is painfully
_short_: For instance, I solved this puzzle in my head, and didn't
even need any extra letters (beth-gimel-daleth-heh, bagdah "she
betrayed", or bigdah "her garment", depending on how you put in the
vowels; also yod-kaf-lamed-mem, "will destroy them")!  Then I realised 
you had to do it in English...

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