αvαnt-Gαrde Move-αnαgrαms—Gαvαgαi!
by Trey Jones
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As noted previously, the great delight of Chomsky’s iconoclastic “move-α” was that it freed the language/speaker/linguist/syntactician to move anything, anywhere, at any time, for any reason, as long as doing so didn’t violate any principles or parameters of any import (with the important ones being those that don’t obviously need to be violated to make one’s theoretical point). In an ever-so-slightly more constrained variety of that spirit, we present another Move-αnαgrαms puzzle for your amusement and/or angerment.
If you aren’t already familiar with Move-αnαgrαms, reviewing the earlier puzzles may give you some needed background. (That is, being a stereotypical linguist, I will just assume you are familiar with the relevant literature before careening onward!)
This version of Move-αnαgrαms features the same complex rules of multiple inheritance, but adds multiple origins, multi-word terms, and multiple termini. There is also a certain je ne sais what, a holographic indeterminacy imbued with an intangible air of Quinean inscrutability laced with an epistemological holism of pareidolic proportions whose referent is indefinable, though it has a faint aroma of Hαsεnpfεffεя.
Nevertheless, the show must go on. Provided here is this month’s puzzle, which is the trickiest—or at least the mostest—puzzle so far. If you think you’ve got it all figured out, submit your solution to the editors of SpecGram by October 15, 2013, and you could win a prize.* Solutions and winners will be announced in the November issue.
The answers to the September puzzle, EtymGeo™—Weird Little U.S. Towns, Part II, are: Panacea, Florida; Enigma, Georgia; Papa, Hawaii; Obsidian, Idaho; Oblong, Illinois; Acme, Indiana; Diagonal, Iowa; Ransom, Kansas; and Ogle, Kentucky.
The following puzzlemeisters had the good luck both to have submitted error-free solutions and to have been nominated by the Puzzlotron 4400 as this month’s champions:
Olivia Doherty • Vince Wilson
Honorable mentions go to Hannah Roberts, Eric Chen, and Adam Hesterberg, even though the Puzzlotron 4400 was not nearly as partial to them.
* Note that new SpecGram Anti-Hoarding Guidelines stipulate that puzzle-related prizes cannot be won by anyone who has won a puzzle-related prize in the last six months—though honor, fame, and glory may still be seized† on the metaphorical field of puzzle-related battle.
† Except where taxed, prohibited by law, or otherwise restricted, constrained, limited, regulated, controlled, hindered, impeded, hampered, obstructed, checked, curbed, shackled, confined, or otherwise subject to thesaural interference.
