Monday, April 21, 2008

What is an ANAGRAM?

It seems some folks think a word list of words Lexigrammed from a name, phrase, etcetera;
is an anagram....
The following are excerpted from an odd discussion about what is an anagram.
It appears misconceptions abound.

I said:

I am still working on the Lexigram of
Barack Hussein Obama Jr
However for now a few interesting things I have found hidden within his name!

Biblical/Koran/Torah, or Old Testament related names and words found in the name:

Barack Hussein Obama Jr

ABIAH ABIHU ABIJAH ABIRAM ABRAHAM ABRAM ABNER AARON
ARRON ASA ANAISAMOS AMARIAH ASHER ACHAN BARAUCH
BARAK BARNABAS BENAIAH CAIN CAINE CARMI ENOSH ENOCH
ENOS ERAN ESAIAS ESAU HAM HIRAM HOSEA IRA JACHIN JACOB
JAIR JAIRUS JAMES JAMIN JASON JESUS JACOB JAKOB JAME JOHN
JEHU JERICHO JESS ISA ISSA ISSAK ISSAC URIAS JOAB JOACHIM
JOASH JOB JOHN JONAH JOSES JOSHUA JOSIAH MANASSEH MARK
MICAH MOSES NAHOR NAHUM NOAH OMRI SAMSON SHEBA SHEM
SIMEON URI URIAH ABIAH ABIJAH JERUSHA MORIAH NAAMAH
NAOMI NERIAH RAHAB SARA SARAH SARAI SHARON
KORAN BEN BAR ROMAN ROMANS CROSS CAESAR ASIA BRANCH
JONAH JOB SAMSON ARAMAIC ARABIC ARABIAN CHERUBIM
CHERUB CHERUBS HEBRAIC KOSHER SERMON
And he has many places in his name:
AMERICA ASIA CHINA CUBA IRAN RUSSIA ARABIA CARIBBEAN
EURASIA ROME JAMAICA SAMOA SUMERIA SUMNER KANSAS
And these:
KRISHNA KARMA BRAHMA

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Person replied:
"Interesting anagrams!"
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I replied:
"Thank you.
quote:
Interesting anagrams!

Except those are simply genre categorized words and names found within his name...
not Anagrams.
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they replied:
From my understanding that is what is called a "perfect anagram". I might be wrong but I didnt think that, to be considered an anagram, a word had to contain every single letter of the original word within it.

quote:
anagrams : defined as words made from the letters of another word. an anagram does not have to use all the letters of the first word.

You create words using only the letters that create names or words, or phrases or sentences, and these words within names or
words are anagrams.
Anagramming Example : Sunrise. Sun is an anagram of sunrise. So is rise. So is siren.
Press the anagrams link above to see the axioms of the art and science of the Lexigram with their anagrams in form.
The word Lexigram comes from two words; lexi, meaning word, and –gram, meaning drawn out in full or written out in full.
A Lexigram is a fuller measure of a nameing or word’s meaning drawn out using only those letters used in spelling the name or
word you are working with, making anagrams, then intuiting how the found anagrams can make lines revealing meaning
pertinent to the name or word itsElf. Not all anagrams must be used to render meaningful revealings.
Samples of anagrams using these words : LETTERS, WORDS, SENTENCES.

perfect anagrams : defined as using all the letters of a word or name to make another name or meaning or revealing from the first.
To claim a miracle real, you have to be a miracle claimer.
The same letters spell miracle and claimer, and each are perfect anagrams of the other.
A perfect anagram of the name, MADONNA is AND AMON. Amon is a name of the God of Love and Reproduction.
or, more precisely, they are a perfect word anagrams phrase in that all the words are spelled with the letters of the miracle, which are aceilmr.

You have an awareness choice in life; to be SACRED, or be SCARED. The Letters Let Seer See, so you may choose well.

one line letter perfect ultimate healing anagrams : abbreviation is OLLPUHA : as identified and defined at
Good Works On Earth as, those perfect anagrams from a name's full letters that reveals the highest awarenesses and healings in
the echoes of life's livings. We take ALL the letters of the ENTIRE name, and we bunch them all together and we craft from all
these letters a one line letter perfect anagram: no letters missing, no extras.


Wrong? *shrugs*
....

dictionary:

an·a·gram (n-grm)
n.
1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.
2. anagrams (used with a sing. verb) A game in which players form words from a group of randomly picked letters.

Well... It doesnt specifically say by ONLY reordering ALL the letters of another word. So I dont know....

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I replied:

JOIN AMBER, HUSK A SCARAB
A BARBARIAN'S CHUM JOKES
SO JAR A MACABRE BUSH KIN


The above are Anagrams of his name.
I know what an anagram is.
I do not agree with the above guy.
He drops and or puts odd limits on the letters from some of his phrases being anagrammed.
For example...(not one of his, simply an example)

THE TREE IS GREEN

His way would not allow the following 2 ANAGRAMS of that phrase.

HI GREENEST TREE

GREENEST EITHER

The first is what I call a PERFECT ANAGRAM in that it still refers to the "THE TREE IS GREEN", and uses ALL the letters.


The second is an ANAGRAM because it still uses ALL the letters from THE TREE IS GREEN, but is not as directly thematic.

He however does not allow any word in the anagram to have more of any letters which appear in any one word in the phrase being anagrammed.

He would not allow GREENEST because it has
THREE of the letter "E" in it and the source
THE TREE IS GREEN does not have any words with 3 of the letter "E".

Interesting alternative to anagramming but restrictive.

THORN is an ANAGRAM of NORTH because it uses ALL the letters in NORTH, but it is not PERFECT because it is not thematic to NORTH.

Generally one takes the phrase and simply scrambles ALL the letters then uses ALL of them to create the anagram.
If it bears a thematic relation to the source, and uses all the letters, that is what is considered by most to be a Perfect Anagram.

He drops letters when Lexigramming too as with his William Jefferson Clinton one.
He did not actually Lexigram the entire name.
He dropped letters first.


ALL THE LETTERS IN THE ORIGINAL PHRASE, NAME OR WORD MUST BE USED TO CREATE THE ANAGRAM!

otherwise it would be only a Lexigram or a list of Lexigram words as above I gave for Obama.

Additionally he uses ANAGRAMS to create what he calls Lexigrams. Well yes, they are Lexigrams, but anagram based.
True Lexigramming does not rely on anagramming and stringing them together to create a Lexigram. He also uses an anagram generator.
This one I believe: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

I find his methods interesting but I do not agree with him.

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Additionally I said:

And my first post of words in Obama's name was NOT AN ANAGRAM(s) by any stretch of the imagination..

I hope I clarified that.

The following are ANAGRAMS!