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Title: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: indianasmith on February 18, 2009, 10:37:57 PM Aside from its tortured grammar, notice anything unusual?
"Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver; I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I -lo! rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami! Reviled, I, Nona, live on. I do, o God!" Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: akiratubo on February 18, 2009, 10:52:19 PM It's a palindrome.
Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on February 18, 2009, 11:28:43 PM It's a palindrome. No...it reads the same forwards as backwards! :bouncegiggle: -Ed Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Mofo Rising on February 18, 2009, 11:36:42 PM It's a palindrome. No...it reads the same forwards as backwards! :bouncegiggle: -Ed By which I presume you mean to say it doesn't make much sense when you read it the first time, but if you read it letter by letter starting from the end, then you will find new meaning. Or is it the other way around? Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: indianasmith on February 19, 2009, 12:08:16 AM If you read it backwards, letter for letter, it is identical!! This is one of the longer palindromes in the English language. Anybody else got some palindromes for us? Like -
Naomi, sex at noon taxes, I moan! May a moody baby doom a yam? Dennis sinned. Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Rev. Powell on February 19, 2009, 12:15:29 AM Do geese see God?
Murder for a jar of red rum. Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: CheezeFlixz on February 19, 2009, 12:27:04 AM Here you go the worlds longest palindrome ...
http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html (http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html) If you want to read it you can, I'll pass it's 17,259 words long. Somebody has to much time on their hands. Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: ds21 on February 19, 2009, 12:28:54 AM Here you go the worlds longest palindrome ... [url]http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html[/url] ([url]http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html[/url]) If you want to read it you can, I'll pass it's 17,259 words long. Somebody has to much time on their hands. WOW that's epic! Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Rev. Powell on February 19, 2009, 12:30:30 AM Here you go the worlds longest palindrome ... [url]http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html[/url] ([url]http://norvig.com/pal2txt.html[/url]) If you want to read it you can, I'll pass it's 17,259 words long. Somebody has to much time on their hands. Seems like kind of a cheat, since it's just a list rather than a grammatical sentence. I agree, someone had WAY too much time on their hands. Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: indianasmith on February 19, 2009, 07:03:16 AM God alive, ran one, are no evil a dog.
Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Derf on February 19, 2009, 08:24:26 AM Gee, the weirdest thing I noticed about that sentence is that it is six sentences long :teddyr:.
I asked my computer for a palindrome, and it replied: I am AI. Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Doggett on February 19, 2009, 09:38:31 AM saw
Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: BoyScoutKevin on March 10, 2009, 06:29:15 PM If you read it backwards, letter for letter, it is identical!! This is one of the longer palindromes in the English language. Anybody else got some palindromes for us? Like - Naomi, sex at noon taxes, I moan! May a moody baby doom a yam? Dennis sinned. Yes. Some words are palindromes, like "level." Then there's Adam's first words to Eve: "Madam, I'm Adam." And Napoleon's words on first seeing where he was to be exiled on Elba: "Able was I, ere I saw Elba." And that's all I have, but there are alot more out there. Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: The Burgomaster on March 11, 2009, 05:58:45 AM This sentence is just the opposite:
They all ran down the winding dirt road. If you read it backwards, it is different than if you read it forwards. What are the odds of that? Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Allhallowsday on March 12, 2009, 08:05:08 PM This sentence is just the opposite: daor trid gnidniw eht nwod nar lla yeht :drink:They all ran down the winding dirt road. If you read it backwards, it is different than if you read it forwards. What are the odds of that? Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: dean on March 13, 2009, 12:01:40 AM I've mentioned this before but I had a customer whose name was Eduan Naude. :tongueout: Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Wortcov on March 13, 2009, 02:32:36 PM notlob. thats all I got to say :tongueout:
Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: BoyScoutKevin on March 13, 2009, 03:18:57 PM After I posted my first reply to this thread, I realized that not only is "level" a palindrome, but so is "redivider."
Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Wag on March 14, 2009, 04:03:38 AM Ten animals I slam in a net
Was it a car or a cat I saw? My contribution :tongueout: Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: ghouck on March 14, 2009, 11:40:14 PM God alive, ran one, are no evil a dog. Fixed: God alive, one ran, are no evil a dog :teddyr: Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Wag on March 15, 2009, 04:10:54 AM Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I? Title: Re: What is weird about this sentence? Post by: Psycho Circus on March 15, 2009, 04:15:49 PM Racecar :tongueout:
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