Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: 2nd pers. pron. for God


> BP Jonsson scripsit:
>
> > Got a reverse wordlist to the KJV?
>
> Nope, just a classic Unix pipeline (this one was invented some 30 years
ago):
>
> tr -cs '[A-Za-z]' '\012' <kjv | sort -u | grep 's$' >s-words
>
> or, in English:
>
> A pipeline of three steps:
>
> 1) Read kjv, transliterate all non-letters to newlines, squeezing out
> redundant newlines
>
> 2) Sort, discarding all duplicates
>
> 3) Discard all except those ending in "s".
>
> This is simplified for paedagogical purposes: I added some more steps
> to discard all words that appeared *only* capitalized, while preserving
> -- only once -- those that appeared both capitalized and not capitalized,
> just to cut back on how much I had to examine.
>
You know what?  Things like this make me wish I used Unix...

I have it installed, but I have a Winmodem, and I don't like switching OS
all the time.

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