@OmarS my pleasure

@OmarS not exactly related but very soothing

@AbramIvanov My daughter is a fan of Nightcore.

@XanderHenderson If you dont mind me asking, what's your connection with russia? Were you born there or have you done a major part of your education there..?

I studied Russian in high school, and spent a semester of my sophomore year living in Siberia.

Also, my great-grandmother was a Russian Jew from the Ukraine.

ohhh

i see

are you fluent in russian or do you need a refresher?

@sai-kartik I have not spoken Russian on a daily basis since 1998. I have lost a lot of it.

I would need a significant refresher.

ohh

well you see, part of me wants to learn russian..(cus i heard its pretty helpful in the space industry)

so i thought i could learn some from you:P

but no pressure..I have no time to learn a new language now

so dont you go pulling out your russian texts just for me

@XanderHenderson congrats on becoming a moderator!

@quid Hello! It is Friday Eve for you!

@amWhy indeed.

How did your day go, @quid?

@quid Do you have any word game to propose?

@amWhy we did not do much on anagrams.

@quid That could be fun!

@amWhy it was a bit drawn out as I had some computer issues. Then I wanted to go buy some stuff, only to notice that they rain was a bit heavier than I thought from inside. So, I postponed that. It seems I might take another chance at that.

@quid Ooh, that's frustrating. >:[

@amWhy at least it is not so hot anymore.

But now I'll stop my complaining.

For the anagrams. So:

@quid You can complain!

ON and NO

NOT and TON

ARE EAR

@amWhy I know. I am really good at it even. ;-)

Of course I understood what you meant. Thank you. :-)

@quid I've been known to be pretty good at it too! ;-)

TALE TEAL and LATE

Wow. Three.

ATE and TEA

NOW WON and OWN

@quid and EAT

@amWhy of course. How I missed that.

WAR and RAW

@quid would ETA count?

@amWhy maybe.

Wow, that would be a three-letter word with four anagrams. Permutuations on ATE yield 6 possible "words", four of which we may have found.

AET TAE

@amWhy might be record of sort.

Presumably many things exists as abbreviation though.

@an4s oh

So in fact all the permutations have some sense.

Any other example for that?

With at least three (distinct) letters.

I'll try to do the shopping now. Maybe y'all come up with something.

Test test test.

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@quid @quid If this is the echo game, then "test, test, test, test, test"?

@amWhy no I meant to test something.

But somehow stopped half way

@quid Just joking on my end ;D

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@amWhy sure, I just thought it could be confusing what I was doing.

You can move my message(s) too, @quid

Do you happen to know is there an actual way to undo a move?

@quid No, I don't know that. Maybe something worth asking in the network-wide chat for site mods.

Maybe there is none. What is funny is that after moving back the arrow remains.

I'll move the thing above to my room.

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What's up with the anagrams?

Ooh: wrt ARE and EAR we also have ERA

@amWhy indeed.

I think that as the number of letters in a word, the ratio of anagrams to permutations of that word declines.

Here is a long one: undefinability, unidentifiably (I cheated on that one.)

Well I have found that it is almost impossible to cover all permutations of a 3-letter word if two of the letters aren't vowels

Supposedly the longest one-word anagram with a relevant amount of mixing.

@quid Wow! That's something

hydroxydeoxycorticosterones vs hydroxydesoxycorticosterone

conversationalists vs conservationalists

basiparachromatin vs marsipobranchiata (whatever that may mean)

@quid more cheating?? ;D

@amWhy yes it was all cheating;

I guess for conversation vs conservation I might have had a chance to get away with the claim that I found it.

Apparently "retains" admits 14 permutations (including the trivial one) that are words.

@quid It is a good one!

@quid Wow!

@quid like "restain"?

@amWhy indeed. Twelve more to go! :-)

Or "retinas"?

11. Let's see how many you can do.

@quid No, I'm not up to that right now! ;D

@amWhy oh

Let's leave the challenge for somebody else or another time then.

@quid Sounds good! At least tonight I don't need to redeem myself, as yesterdays challenge I was sentenced to! ;D

@amWhy but I am in tears that you did not pick it up now. (But only for mentioning a two-word anagram of the one above.)

@an4s I guess having it start with two consonants and end in vowel is rare.

For four letter words we have tsar or czar

There is sly but it does not seem to have much anagramms

Or that or this or then or than. Three letter words we have sty, try, fry, sky, cry, pry, fly, ...

Thu

@quid What is Thu? The prefix of Thursday?

@amWhy I think I confused it with thou.

But if we allow old forms there is thy it seems.

west, stew, wets!

why did we not come up with this before.

@quid Indeed not!

ply

wry

ski

shy

@quid You're right, especially if we omit "y" as a vowel.

@amWhy flu

@quid Good one!

Plus it admits ulf (which is a name, though not so common in English I guess).

@quid Yes, exactly.

I was able to come up with 5 of the 6 permutations of the word one. eno isn't a valid English word (but it is valid in some other languages).

@an4s oen and noe?

I can see one and eon

Maybe I'll give you neo

@amWhy oen noe

I also found a usage of noe here in a poem by W. H. Auden. I did some more search but all other sources (including Wikipedia) replaced the word with now.

@an4s The first is not English, and the second is, well, in the making, perhaps.

@amWhy Ah! I didn't notice the Dutch part.

It's a different game entirely if we allow words from any existing language.

True. And if we allow abbreviations

@an4s and/or acronyms!

Well... oen is used here in an English sentence..

@amWhy Yes

@an4s like Brain Eno.

Noe is also a name I think.

Oen too in a way. More or less the second given name of Carlsen.

Actually the third. But Magnus is the second.

Could be a really mean game show question.

What is the first name of the current chess World Champion. (a) Carl (b) Magnus (c) Sven (d) Gustave

@quid It could be. I excluded names on purpose because many names in English are words that don't have meaning otherwise.

@quid Is Oen related to Owen?

@quid (c) Sven Magnus Oen Carlsen.

@quid chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55243431#55243431 It's hard to know. It is apparently Welsh, in origin.

@amWhy very good.

I did not make the connection to Owen, but seems not implausible.

@quid My brother's middle name is Owen.

Seven magnet one carlson

@AlexanderGruber Hah! ;D

What's it like having brothers, @amwhy?