What's in a name?

[drabauer]

I invite all of you intrepid T&S posters to take the Lexnet challenge: using the link below, you can find any manner of connections between words and/or proper names. There are an almost infinite number of variations you can work, depending on what type of connection you're looking for, and how many variables you want to program in. Please try your luck with your favorite castaway!

Lexical Freenet (http://www.lexfn.com/)

[imamiamigurl]

Very interesting!!

Try mixing and matching:

Rousseau
Toomey
Simms
Hurley
Hugo
Locke
Numbers

I did this for over an hour collecting data, only to find when I posted all of my gathered information I received a "HTML Comments not allowed!!!"

Thank you for this site, I learned a lot about Erich Tschermak-Seysenegg, Abraham de Moivre and Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau. These names appeared when I put in "Hugo and Numbers" and I chose to find the "connection".

(edited to add that I googled these names and this is a very informative read).

[drabauer]

imamiamigurl, I want to know what you've found! Can you post it as plain text? :)

[Mellis12]

Not trying to hijack your thread at all, Dra, but here's another fun site you can use for names. If you put in a word, it gives you tons of words you can make with the same letters. For instance, I put in Ethan and came up with Thane for Claire's baby's name.

I don't know how to make this link other than cut and paste the URL. Sorry!


www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl (http://www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/jumble.pl)

[drabauer]

Thanks mellis, that's fun, but the idea of Lexnet is that it makes meaningful connections between or among words.

Let me explain: Links can be specified as trigger (Clinton/Whitewater), synonym, generalization (tree/acacia), specialization, comprises (Turkey/Istanbul), part-of (CPU/computer), antonym, rhyme, sounds-like (candle/cancel), anagram, occupation (Leonardo da Vinci/painter), nationality, birth year, death year, biographical trigger (Jesse Louis Jackson/rainbow) and also known as links. Furthermore, all these options are available in semantic, phonetic or biographical searches. You can show words that are related, find all connections between two words, specifiy how many links between two, etc.

In other words, just the tool to determine if any of the character names, places or characteristics have historical or other links.

That's why I got so excited about it!

[Mellis12]

That's pretty incredible!! Can you imagine writing the program for that site? Geez! I'm going to go play around with it. Thanks, DraBauer!