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From: Marion Koslowski (text added also by other members of
alt.ascii-art)
Doida added:
Polish "kropka, kropka, kreska, kreska, to jest morda mego pieska" means
"dot, dot, line, line, this is my dog's face" :)
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| | | | | ,---. |
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| | | , | , | | , : |
| | | | - | ` - , |
| | | | | `..__,' |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+-----------------+
| Punkt | Punkt | Komma | Strich | Fertig ist das | DE
| | | | | Mondgesicht! |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+-----------------+
|Punktum|Punktum| Komma | Streg | Sådan tegnes | DK
| | | | | Nikolaj! |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+-----------------+
| kropka| kropka|kreska | kreska | to jest morda | PL
| | | | | mego pieska |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+-----------------+
| tochka| tochka| zapyataya | vyshla rozhitsa | RU
| | | | kryvaya |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+-----------------+
| point | point |virgule| ligne | La face de la | FR
| | | | | Lune est finie |
+-------+-------+-------+---------+-----------------+
| dot | dot |comma | dash | moon's face | UK
| | | | | in a flash |
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+------+------+------+------+------+------+-------+--kOs--+
| | | | | | . | . | . |
| | | | | | / | / \ | / \ |
| | | | | ___ | /___ | /___\ | /___\ |
| | \ | |\ | |\ / | |\ / | |\ / | |\ / | |\ /| |
| | \ | | \ | | X | | X | | X | | X | | X | |
| ____ | ___\ | |__\ | |/_\ | |/_\ | |/_\ | |/_\ | |/_\| |
| | | | | | | | |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+
| Das | ist | das | Haus | vom | Ni- | ko- | laus.| DE
+------+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+
| Het | ge- | heim | van | de | smid | is | dit. | NL
+------+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------+
From: Philip Newton
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| . | . | . | . |
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| |/_\|_______ | |/_\|______\ | |/_\|___|__\ | |/_\|___|/_\ |
| | | | |
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| und | ne- | ben- | an |
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| |/_\|___|/_\ | |/_\|___|/_\ | |/_\|___|/_\ | |/_\|___|/_\| |
| | | | |
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| vom | Weih- | nachts- | mann. |
+--------------+--------------+---------------+---------------+
From: Timofei Shatrov
There is a theorem by Euler with which you can easily predict if the picture is
"drawable". Look. This double house has 4 odd points (it means that odd number of
lines goes into it):
. .
/ \7/ \
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|\ /|\ /|
| X | X |
3|/_\|/_\|3
5
If there is more than 2 odd points the picture is "undrawable" under this rules.
From: Marco Kirschke
Yes. You're right. :)
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