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07-09-2004, 09:39 PM
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my GF\'s middle name
hello all....not sure if there's anything that anyone can do to help me with this HUGELY important problem.
my GF is extremely embarassed by her middle name and won't tell me what it is. she promises to tell me if i actually do get it correct and i have procured a few clues out of her that narrows it down somewhat. i was hoping to put together some sort of print-out that lists every single possibility and just bombard her with all of the guesses until i get it. but i don't know how to write a computer program and i still have to large a range of possibilities for this to be realistic. anyway...the clues... she is of latin american decent....she says that she and her mom are the only ones that she has ever heard of with this name. 8 letters... begins with L ends with A 2nd letter is a vowel letters definitely not in the name include Z, Y, Q, W multiplying it out (5 possibilities for 2nd letter, 22 possibilities for 3rd through 7th letters) you get 25,769,160. that would be a rather huge printout. obviously possibilities like Laaaaaaa and Lalalala and Layoyoya and Lerrrhha are out. i'm assuming it's a fairly reasonably pronounced word and not a bunch of nonsense letters. perhaps i can find out if any letter is repeated back to back....i suspect the name does not use the same letter 3 times in a row sense that would be pretty weird. at first she miscounted and thought there wre only 7 letters (which also cut down the possibilites significantly) but she has now informed me that it's actually 8 letters. i told her that that fact alone took it from around 1 million to 25 million and she was rather proud of herself. guesses that did not make the cut when i thought it was 7 letters included Levitra (a TV commercial was on while we were talking about this) and LaBamba. anybody have any ideas on how i can go about this?? apologies if you think i am wasting everyone's time with this goofy post. 
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07-10-2004, 05:02 AM
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Re: my GF\'s middle name
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she says that she and her mom are the only ones that she has ever heard of with this name. [/ QUOTE ] Why don't you ask her mother? <font color="white"> Umm, it would be cheating? </font> Say you want to get the spelling right for a personalized coffee mug.
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07-10-2004, 09:29 AM
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Re: my GF\'s middle name
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Say you want to get the spelling right for a personalized coffee mug. [/ QUOTE ] Now that's funny, right there.
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#5
07-10-2004, 05:32 AM
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Re: my GF\'s middle name
Would be helpful to know whether the name contains eight distinct letters, and if not how many distinct letters it does contain. Also would be nice to know precisely how many of the 8 letters are consonants.
With that information you might be able to narrow it down to a few hundred thousand possibilities.
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07-10-2004, 09:00 PM
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Re: my GF\'s middle name
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It may be time to tell her to grow up. [/ QUOTE ] not sure that would be the healthiest way to help our relationship grow. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] actually, she would have every justification in the world to demand that i grow up...certainly far more then the reverse. yet she never does this. i would certainly rather have her, interesting little quirks and all, then have to deal with many of the judgemental wives and GF's out there who are so disapproving of this poker thing regardless of how many times you show them that you are a winning player in the long-run. no offense to the many who have significant others who have a difficult time understanding....i know how it is. i'm just glad that she doesn't happen to be one. she doesn't question my ways and nor do i hers. okay....other ideas...i like the whole 'mug' thing...except for the fact that her madre no habla englais. our conversations don't go too much past 'hola. como estas? buenos noches' etc etc. and she likely wouldn't tell me anyway. i might try to narrow it down to see if it's 8 'different' letters....number of consonants, etc etc. but even when if i do this...i really can't get any further then typing out all the possibilities myself. anyway, thanks for the suggestions and my apologies again to those who think i'm wasting anyone/everyone's time.
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07-11-2004, 09:29 PM
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Re: my GF\'s middle name
lilianna seems unlikely....especially given my latest clues (which i divulge later)
i think i tried something close enough to lucretia. indeed, what a strange way to make a first post. there are definitely better threads around here i assure you. welcome to the forums. couple more clues...here's the whole summary again. former clues - 8 letters begins with L ends with A 2nd letter is a vowel Q, W, Y, Z are not in the name new clues - one of the consonants is used twice one of the vowels is used multiple times (could not establish if it was twice or thrice) the repeated letters do NOT appear consecutively this makes calculating the exact number of possiblities rather tricky. anyone care to take a shot at determining the precise figure? also...anyone care to take a shot at determining the chances that the 2nd letter is an 'A'?? remember, one of the vowels is used multiple times and the last letter is definitely an A and the 2nd letter is definitely a vowel... anyway, getting too tricky for me.
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