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Date: Mon Dec 18 07:06:58 1995
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
Subject:      Re: The gismu creation algorithm
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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>However, I frequently feel as if letter order was not really considered
>in that process. In fact, by rearranging letters one gets longer matches.
>Is it just a coincidence, or perhaps a bug in the program? :-)
>
>co'o mi'e paulos.

It is certainly a coincidence.  If you think you have a better match for a
word, I still have all 20 meg of gismu data runs around to verify what we
found for its score.  The actual scores and etymologies for the words as they
are will be found in my ftp directory, as I recently posted.

lojbab