What is weird about this sentence?

indianasmith · 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!"

akiratubo · February 18, 2009, 10:52:19 PM

It's a palindrome.

Ed, Ego and Superego · February 18, 2009, 11:28:43 PM

Quote from: akiratubo on February 18, 2009, 10:52:19 PM
It's a palindrome.

No...it reads the same forwards as backwards!

-Ed

Mofo Rising · February 18, 2009, 11:36:42 PM

Quote from: Ed, Just Ed on February 18, 2009, 11:28:43 PM
Quote from: akiratubo on February 18, 2009, 10:52:19 PM
It's a palindrome.

No...it reads the same forwards as backwards!
-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?

indianasmith · 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.

Rev. Powell · February 19, 2009, 12:15:29 AM

Do geese see God?

Murder for a jar of red rum.

CheezeFlixz · February 19, 2009, 12:27:04 AM

Here you go the worlds longest palindrome ...

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.

ds21 · February 19, 2009, 12:28:54 AM

Quote from: CheezeFlixz on February 19, 2009, 12:27:04 AM
Here you go the worlds longest palindrome ...

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.

WOW that's epic!

Rev. Powell · February 19, 2009, 12:30:30 AM

Quote from: CheezeFlixz on February 19, 2009, 12:27:04 AM
Here you go the worlds longest palindrome ...

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.

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.

indianasmith · February 19, 2009, 07:03:16 AM

God alive, ran one, are no evil a dog.

Derf · February 19, 2009, 08:24:26 AM

Gee, the weirdest thing I noticed about that sentence is that it is six sentences long

.

I asked my computer for a palindrome, and it replied:

I am AI.

Doggett · February 19, 2009, 09:38:31 AM

saw

BoyScoutKevin · March 10, 2009, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: 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.

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.

The Burgomaster · 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?

Allhallowsday · March 12, 2009, 08:05:08 PM

Quote from: 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?

daor trid gnidniw eht nwod nar lla yeht