From: dfreemans@live.com   
      
   On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 7:44:14 AM UTC-5, Vincent Maycock wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 22:37:28 -0800 (PST), Debra wrote:   
   >   
   > >Here's my contribution, after spending a few minutes on seeing   
   > >what "Rosetta Mission" is about or means:   
   >   
   > Supposedly, Debra didn't know about the Rosetta mission until davidp   
   > told her about it, and then Debra did all these anagrams ...  in a   
   > hurry, but one wonders where exactly she was since about Thanksgiving,   
   > when many other alt.anagrams posters began anagramming this phrase.   
   >   
   > Anyway, we've looked at some of her anagrams that make no sense, and   
   > now it's time to look at some of those that do make sense and compare   
   > their quality with what some of the other posters have been doing.   
   >   
   > >THE COMPLETE ROSETTA MISSION: ~   
   > >TO INSTIL AT MESOSPHERE COMET.   
   >   
   > As in, someone instills something into someone on a comet in the   
   > mesosphere.  Good enough, with use of British spelling variant of   
   > instill.   
   >   
   > >AS TILT INTO MESOSPHERE COMET.   
   >   
   > Good enough.  I've seen other anagrams here at this newsgroup of about   
   > this grammatical quality.   
   >   
   > >O MEETS HELPS INTROITS A COMET.   
   >   
   > Grammatically incorrect.  Points off.   
   >   
   > >SO AS HELPMEET INTROITS COMET.   
   >   
   > Senseless.  Introit is not a verb.   
   >   
   > >COMPLETE ROSETTA MISSION: ~   
   > >TEE STAR COMET'S IMPLOSION?   
   >   
   > What the fuck is a tee star?   
   >   
   > >SEE COMET'S TRIP, AS LIT MOON.   
   >   
   > Excellent.  Full credit.   
   >   
   > >LET'S PRAISE COMET, MOTIONS.   
   >   
   > Very nice.   
   >   
   > >POSER COMET'S TESTIMONIALS.   
   >   
   > Oh, he had those?  LOL.   
   >   
   > >MOT COMET'S PERSONALITIES.   
   >   
   > Okay, if by "mot" she means "girlfriend."  Wouldn't make any sense   
   > Debra means "a clever or witty remark" when she uses the word "mot."   
   >   
   > >MILEPOST COMET, ASSERTION.   
   >   
   > Good enough.   
   >   
   > >PRISES COMET MOLESTATION.   
   >   
   > An  amusing thing to extract with difficulty.   
   >   
   > >EMOTIONLESS COMET; RAPIST.   
   >   
   > Very nice.   
   >   
   > >POLITENESS, AMORIST, COMET.   
   >   
   > Technically grammatically incorrect, but within the range of the kind   
   > of grammatical incorrectness used in poetry.   
   >   
   > >SPOTS SOME INERTIAL COMET.   
   >   
   > Excellent.  Generally we award "excellent" to anagrams that are   
   > grammatically correct *and* have some direct, real-world relevance to   
   > the word that it's an anagram of.   
   >   
   > >STEPS COMET, SERIAL MOTION.   
   >   
   > Makes no sense.   
   >   
   > >AS MOT PIONEERS LIST COMET.   
   >   
   > Worthless.  Doesn't even make any sense, although paltry partial   
   > credit for finding the world "Pioneer" in there, which is relevant to   
   > space travel.   
   >   
   > >PRIME STATION'S SOLE COMET.   
   >   
   > Excellent.   
   >   
   > >COMET, STATION, SOME PERILS.   
   >   
   > Oh, my!  I suppose there would be.  (It should be clear, of course,   
   > that if I react to an anagram as if it were an actual, real   
   > non-anagrammed posted  message that relates to the subject matter of   
   > the original phrase being anagrammed, that's the same thing as   
   > "excellent.")   
   >   
   > >STORM POSE IT - ALIEN COMET.   
   >   
   > Worthless.  There's no such phrase as "storm pose it."   
   >   
   > >POLE SINISTER COMET, ATOMS.   
   >   
   > Makes no sense.  No credit for this one.   
   >   
   > >ENTRIES SPOIL COMET, ATOMS.   
   >   
   > Very nice. Not "excellent," but I do find the idea of talking to atoms   
   > amusing.   
   >   
   > >EMIT POSITRONS; SEAL COMET. (?)   
   >   
   > Very nice. Not sure what the question mark is for. Maybe it's another   
   > one of Debra's tilde-type useless notations, so that she really means   
   >   
   > EMIT POSITRONS; SEAL CO~MET~.(?)   
   >   
   > >PIRATES MOTIONLESS COMET.   
   >   
   > She means   
   >   
   > PIRATES' MOTIONLESS COMET   
   >   
   > or   
   >   
   > PIRATE'S MOTIONLESS COMET   
   >   
   > No points deducted for typographical errors on her part, of course.   
   >   
   > >MISSILE ENTRAPS COMET TOO.   
   >   
   > Very nice.   
   >   
   > >OPERANTS TO MISSILE COMET.   
   >   
   > Worthless.   
   >   
   > >TOTALISER PINS SOME COMET.   
   >   
   > LOL.  I'll bet he did.   
   >   
   > >EMPIRES, TOOLS, STAIN COMET.   
   >   
   > We'll reconstruct this to   
   >   
   > EMPIRE'S TOOLS STAIN COMET,   
   >   
   > if we consider the U.S. space program to be a product of the  greatest   
   > "empire" the world has ever seen since ... well, I guess the British   
   > Empire a century ago.   
   >   
   > We can't award Debra full credit for this one, though.  There was   
   > simply too much reconstruction involved to make the anagram sensible.   
   >   
   > >TEAMS SPLIT COMET, EROSION.   
   >   
   > Almost good enough.   
   >   
   > >STEPS ON COMET, MORALITIES.   
   >   
   > Worthless.   
   >   
   > >ELITE PORTION COMET'S MASS.   
   >   
   > Needs work.  Re-submit, and I'll reconsider on whether to assign full   
   > credit.   
   >   
   > >MASTERS TOP COMET, ELISION.   
   >   
   > Rubbish.   
   >   
   > >REAL OPTIMISTS NOSE COMET.   
   >   
   > What the hell is a "nose comet?"  Very poor work.   
   >   
   > >LASERS OPTION COMET'S TIME.   
   >   
   > Rubbish.   
   >   
   > >PATROL COMET, TIMES, NOISES.   
   >   
   > Excellent.   
   >   
   > >SOME PLIANT COMET'S STORIE.   
   >   
   > Very nice.   
   >   
   > >COMET SLEPT; MOTION ARISES.   
   >   
   > Perfect.  The extra praise is due to the forcefulness of the   
   > phraseology used; very poetic and relevant to comet behavior.   
   >   
   > >COMET ERA; OPTIMIST LESSON.   
   >   
   > Excellent.   
   >   
   > >PETITION COMET'S MASS, LORE.   
   >   
   > Of low quality, but at least grammatically correct, technically   
   > speaking.  Lore is of course being used in the sense of the   
   > technically unisex (but probably mostly female) name, "Lore," rather   
   > than as the more famous common noun "lore" (as in "American Indian   
   > tribal lore")   
   >   
   > >PRINT: "ISOLATES SOME COMET."   
   >   
   > LOL.  Or how about   
   >   
   > If(spectrograph analyzer = data +)   
   > {   
   > then   
   >   
   > Cout << "Isolate some comets!" ;   
   > }   
   >   
   > That's a joke for computer programmers -- and *real* computer   
   > programmers use C++ code, not Fortran or Basic or whatever the hell   
   > kind of programming language a "Print" command would come from.   
   >   
   > >PRIESTESS: "MOTIONAL COMET."   
   >   
   > Of low quality.   
   >   
   > >"SAINT", PREMISE, LOOTS COMET.   
   >   
   > Needs work.   
   >   
   > >COMET, SMILES: "IN POOR TASTE."   
   >   
   > Debra continues to struggle with her use of correct punctuation, but   
   > when properly written, I would classify this as an amusing anagram.   
   >   
   > So it's time to grade Debra's work.  We'll "totalize" her anagrams,   
   > then likewise count up all the anagrams that I've listed as being   
   > "good enough" or better, and divide the second number by the first to   
   > get her raw score, which we'll then translate into a letter grade,   
   > using standard academic grading scales.   
   >   
   > Out of the 42 anagrams posted by Debra here,   
   >   
   > 25 of them were "good enough"   
   >   
   > and   
   >   
   > 17 of them were "not good enough."   
   >   
   > Let's whip out the ol' calculator here, and calculate the percentage   
   > of items on the "quiz" that Debra passed:   
   >   
   > 25/42 = 59.5%   
   >   
   > We'll round that up to 60%, and charitably give her a D- for her work   
   > this time.   
   >   
   > So congratulations, Debra, *you passed*!  By the sheer serendipity   
      
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