Date:         Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:47:33 -0700
Reply-To:     "Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV>
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From:         "Choate, Paul@DDS" <pchoate@DDS.CA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Well-endowed hashigana (not quite OT)
Comments: To: "Dorfman, Paul" <paul.dorfman@FCSO.COM>
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Um, let's see - Tuesday afternoon I seem to remember a pair with
interesting hats - kilovolt and sashole - presenting something like this
in paper 241-31.

data sample;
     set sashelp.class;
     rename age=id
            name=sat;
proc sort;
     by id;

data _null_ ;
   dcl hash hid (ordered: 'a') ;
   hid.definekey  ('id', 'sat', '_n_') ;
   hid.definedata ('id', 'sat'       ) ;
   hid.definedone ( ) ;

   do until ( last.id ) ;
      set sample ;
      by id;
      hid.add() ;
   end ;

   hid.output (dataset: 'OUT' || put (id, best.-L)) ;
run ;



My Jewish step-mom calls me meshuggah whenever I act crazily.  Hiragana,
Wikipedia tells me is a Japanese syllabary used when words for which
there are no kanji.

Crazy extra words?


Paul Choate
DDS Data Extraction
(916) 654-2160

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Dorfman, Paul
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:54 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Well-endowed hashigana (not quite OT)
>
> Methinks neologizing on Friday is not too much of a sin, and not
> necessarily an OT one. This one occurred to me while I was munching
the
> explanation of the following step before a SUGI presentation:
>
> data _null_ ;
>    dcl hash hid (ordered: 'a') ;
>    hid.definekey  ('id', 'sat', '_n_') ;
>    hid.definedata ('id', 'sat'       ) ;
>    hid.definedone ( ) ;
>
>    do until ( last.id ) ;
>       set sample ;
>       by id ;
>       hid.add() ;
>    end ;
>
>    hid.output (dataset: 'OUT' || put (id, best.-L)) ;
> run ;
>
> "Hashigana" kind of rolls of the tongue (at least, mine) and, given
the
> hash's non-traditional nature, conveniently sounds both like
"meshugeneh"
> ("meshuggina") and like "hiragana".
>
> Now, a Friday quiz #1: Why does it behoove a semantically-inclined
mind to
> call hashigana in the step above well-endowed? Any takers?
>
> Quiz #2: What presentation the step above is from? Hint: It was given
at
> the everlast SUGI by two knabes who, during their introduction,
identified
> themselves by putting their baseball caps on.
>
> By the way, the spontaneous terminoliogy had not made it into the
> presentation and/or paper. But it sure will...
>
> Kind regards
> ------------
> Paul Dorfman
> Jax, FL
> ------------