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But Garble loved her new game and poured all her effort into switching one word for another and generally making a mess of things (which naughty fairies love to do).
Before Garble came on the scene, Jack would spend a few minutes listening to a farmer describe the thing he needed.
For all Jack's cleverness, he didn't know what to do about this strange problem, or even what the problem really was (remember, Jack didn't know he was in a fairy tale, and he didn't know about Garble).
Optimizing Bi-modal signal/noise reduction: a fairy tale
I thought the conjecture unlikely and was confident that I even had some three-letter isolanos in GNU, OVA, EBB and EMU, but Webster's Third listed GAU, AVA, EBO and EME as garbles. IMP fared even worse, so I sent some four-letter candidates to the editor: INCH, JINN, OYEZ, UGLY, TAXI, ONCE, HYMN and ENVY.
The reverse phenomenon, the onalosi, is a word with garbles in every position, such as SHORES (CHORES, STORES, SHARES, SHOVES, SHORTS, SHORED).
Isolanos
* Dave Tompkins named his book on the history of the vocoder How to Wreck a Nice Beach after the way the machine garbles the phrase "how to recognize speech." But you get the feeling he took distinct pleasure in the title as a double entendre for the impact the vocoder's dance commands made on Miami's shoreline, the city being well and good 'til robo-voiced, heavy bass music started rattling jeeps.
Miami sound machine Dave Tompkins maps the journey of his beloved vocoder
Watching Ferns prance around in leather trousers and a gas mask is funny, so it's a shame he garbles his lines.
Hilarity and horror in Little Shop; REVIEW
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