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Another taste of the Mandible

Early morning. Pre-caffination. My parieto-temporal and inferior frontal gyrus regions froze trying to read this phrase:

"On the other hand, the idea of attaining the cycle lifting of voltage waveform by bringing into use microcontroller which is of 8051 family can be extremely exact as per the plan engraved in assembly or C language so that the real time average voltage or electric current practiced at the load is fairly lesser than the entire signal if functional to the load."


This is almost poetry.

"On the other hand, the idea,
   of attaining the cycle lifting waveform 
           by bringing into use 
   be extremely exact as per the plan
           so that 
   the real time electric
  practiced at the load 
  is fairly lesser than 
  signal."

Perhaps I have the making of a book of found poetry here. I dredge the Internet for the almost Markov-chain output of humans and then parse and edit according to strict rules.
The work above was created by 'delete-only, but layout freely'.
Other rules might be 'add particles: "the, and. a, or, it, is" ', or 'cut/paste phrase'.
The key is minimal transmogrification, because I'm trying to reveal the natural beauty of these lunatic paragraphs. The title has , of course, already been found: 'Who Defrays the Mandible.'
Coming soon to Lulu.com, and God Have Mercy On Our Souls (because we sure as hell can't stop this train wreck)

Cue a mix of 'U Can't Touch This' and 'Please Don't Stop The Music'

Hee hee hee:

Its not every day I get to correct the RenegadeMime.
The number of four letter combinations is 456,976, of which at least 101 are actually words in English.
This is 226.48 pages at the rate of 25 lines per page at 80 characters a column.
But!
I can print at the rate of 300 dpi**, and leaving a comfortable margin gives me a working area of 8x11 inches per sheet of paper. A old style font can be printed in a 8x8 pixel block.
Adding a space character between words (five characters per word) gives me 24750 minuscule* words per page. That's the entire Tetragrammaton Set printed on 18.5 pages.

Or is it? Its the English Tetragrammaton Set. The Hebrew Tetragrammaton Set would have been different - its unlikely that all the same consonants were used. The bigger question is what the Tetragrammaton Prime Set is - and that means finding out how many sounds are used - and usable- in human speech.

*Capital letters would be 0.026 inches high!
**I may misunderstand this rating: is it dots per linear inch, or dots per square inch?