Maybe-isms for triangles

[squirmelia]

As a child fond of triangles, I wanted to be able to manufacture triangle-shaped items, such as cups, shoes, etc. Now, I have access to the most triangle-like letters, which I have decided are:
AKMNVWXYZ

Maybe-isms for triangles:

A NAVY YAK MAY YANK MY WAY WAVY YAM.

A WAN MYNA MAY AX A WAX MAW.

ANY ZANY MAN MAY YAWN.

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No connections to triangles

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

*buys you A MANKY VAX*

I can't prove it, but I once received a letter from Stuart N Hardy myself.

From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s I played quite a few games by mail, not least Quest (http://www.kjcgames.com/quest.htm) by KJC Games (http://www.kjcgames.com/). It was very geeky, but you don't need to apologise for being geeky on LiveJournal. Shortly after I stopped playing I received a letter from the aforementioned SNH offering to trade in-game information. It came as a surprise but a completely logical one - the Stuart would probably enjoy playing a game in which there is much advantage to be got from writing to other players and indeed might even make friends that way. I would date this as being 1995, +/- 1 year. Strangely (at least, strangely compared to what I'm minded to expect from other people who have written about him) it wasn't a hand-written letter - it was printed in the font of a not-very-expensive-looking dot matrix printer. I remember it used bold and italic fairly extensively, was extremely businesslike and contained no emotion whatsoever. I didn't write back.

I've just spent half an hour trying to dig it out and can't find it, which is a shame - it would have been rather fun to scan it and share it. (I can't even find any information from the game where we bumped into each other briefly.) No proof, but I hope you think it's plausible enough to believe.

Oh, and I found your LJ via verlaine, if you're interested.

Re: No connections to triangles

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Woah, I'm in total awe. A letter from Stuart N Hardy! I am planning to go to Sheffield on Stuart N Hardy Day, and find him. If I can find him, I shall ask him about Quest, and a whole range of other things, of course. Maybe I'll even take an autograph book for him to sign, just so I can get a sample of his handwriting.

Re: No connections to triangles

[ex-hazard451.livejournal.com]

Stuart and Treguard together?

This is the best page. ever.

[elethe.livejournal.com]

What about the letter 'L' ? It's 2/3 of a right angled triangle all on its own.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Clearly for a letter to qualify as triangular in Squirmeliande it must have a line at a diagonal as compared to the horizontal.

Who is Stuart N Hardy again?

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[elethe.livejournal.com]

Ah - prejudice against the right angle. That's fair enough. Not nearly spiky enough, I can see that now.

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[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Well, you've got to watch out for those far right angles and their Trigo-Nazi tendencies.

It's all very well for them to *say* they're two thirds of a triangle, but they might just as easily be half a quadrilateral or a quarter of a swastika.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It's not a case of qualifying as being triangular, it's about imagining triangles to be there, amongst the letters. You can imagine the triangles to be anywhere, anywhere at all, but I'm imagining them to just be in certain letters..

Which brings us on to the topic of Stuart N Hardy. He writes letters. Lots of letters.

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[elethe.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think F is only ever going to be a pretender. It's very square.

Probably wise to be selective. Only let in things with diagonal lines.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I contemplated the letter "L" for many an hour, but then realized if I let in "L" to my special triangular-letter-club, I'd have to let in "F" as well, and then you might as well just starting writing letters a bit more pointy, and include "B", because that could have two triangles, and then you'd just have the whole alphabet in there, pretending to be triangular.