ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

De Arte Combinatoria

De arte combinatoria is like playing with Legos, but with letters and words instead of blocks. It's a way of putting words together in different ways to make new sentences and ideas.

Imagine you have a box of Lego blocks, each with a different letter on it. You can take these blocks and put them together to make different words. For example, the blocks "C-A-T" make the word "cat".

Now let's say you have a bunch of different boxes of Lego blocks with different letters on them. You can take blocks from these different boxes and put them together to make longer words and more complex sentences.

De arte combinatoria is like that, but with words instead of blocks. You can take different words and put them together in different ways to create new messages, ideas, and meanings.

It's a really cool way of using language and helps us to understand how different words relate to each other and how they can be combined in different ways. Teachers and writers use it to come up with new ideas and to create interesting writing that people will enjoy reading.