• [Uni- Directional] Doublet -- (Word Ladder)

    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 25 15:50:36 2020
    ( i wonder why it was named "Doublet" ??? )


    [Uni- Directional] Doublet --- (an example)

    Hate-->Love : Hate -- Late -- Lave -- Live -- Love

    Love-->Hate : Love -- Lobe -- Lone -- Tone -- Bone
    -- Bote -- Hote -- Hate

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bote
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hote

    So the lesson is : ( where it is not Bi-Directional, )

    HATE becomes LOVE more easily than the other way around.

    ( how about Black & White ? )
    ( how about Right & Wrong ? )
    ( how about Japan , China, Korea ? )

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    1-directional Doublet is when you can only change a letter
    by going (max. of) 12 steps forward.

    You can go from A to M, but not to N.

    imagine a clock with 26 hours... ( A, B, ..., Z )

    Z to A, Z to B , Z to C... are allowed


    hate ---> love
    [Hate, Late, Lave, Love] is not ok, (A->O is going too far)

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    In Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the narrator/commentator Charles
    Kinbote talks about playing "word golf" with John Shade :

    My illustrious friend showed a childish predilection
    for all sorts of word games and especially for
    so-called word golf ....
    Some of my records are: hate-love in three,

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    the point of my [Uni- Directional] constraint is that....

    it may be (more) interesting if the
    return trip had to take a diff. route.
    (different scenery, etc.)

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    HATE becomes LOVE more easily than the other way around.

    ( how about Black & White ? )
    ( how about Right & Wrong ? )
    ( how about Japan , China, Korea ? )

    ( how about Good & Evil ? )
    ( how about Problems & Solution ? )
    ---------- For these, you may have to resort to . . . ...........

    HH

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