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Will Shortz' Sunday puzzler today is very easy for people with tools.

It would be fun if a computational linguist won -- raise the profile of our (pre)occupation, eh?

Stuff the ballot box! Solve it (took me about 10 seconds on the command line) and maybe one of us will win!
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Date: 2006-04-30 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com
sheesh -- (1) no capitalized words. (2) don't spoil it! I'm screening this.

Date: 2006-04-30 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com
oh, and monosyllables only, so "redhead Flymo" is doubly out. I had to look up Flymo, though.

Date: 2006-04-30 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com
If I had to guess, I would have guessed that flying lawnmowers were more common over here in the US. But I would have been wrong!

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