Palindromes

[Cleopatra]

Sotades of Maronea (c.275BC) is credited as one of the early inventors of the palindrome: words or phrases that read the same backwards as forwards.

Never odd or even
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama


Source. (http://www.miscellanies.info)


In Greek we have many palindromes and this kind of script is called "Canceric script". Do you know other palindromes to add in the list? :)

[Nyarlathotep]

Able was I ere I saw Elba.

[Luciana]

My favorite palindrome is:

Socorram-me, subi no ônibus em Marrocos!

Meaning:

Help me, I climbed a bus in Morrocco!

There's nothing like a palindrome with a sense of urgency. :)

[wollery]

Rats live on no evil star

Madam I'm Adam

[Brian]

"Son, I am able she said, though you scare me, watch said I beloved, I said watch me scare you, though said she able am I son."

-They Might Be Giants

[Azathoth]

Doc, note I dissent: a fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.


If I had a hifi
[this is as far as I ever got in composing palindromes, as I realized that that way lay madness.]

[Cleopatra]

Originally posted by Azathoth

[this is as far as I ever got in composing palindromes, as I realized that that way lay madness.] This replies partly a question I wanted to ask.

Have you people composed the palindromes you posted? All the palindromes I know in Greek are just well known palindromes I have never composed any.

[Nyarlathotep]

Originally posted by Cleopatra
This replies partly a question I wanted to ask.

Have you people composed the palindromes you posted? All the palindromes I know in Greek are just well known palindromes I have never composed any.

I didn't compose mine. It's a well know palindrome. Especially to those that study Napoleon.

[epepke]

Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts.

[aerosolben]

Other classics:

A man, a plan, a canal: Panama
racecar

Interesting:

From Wikipedia:

The Latin palindrome "Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas" is remarkable for the fact that it reproduces itself also if one forms a word from the first letters, then the second letters and so forth. Hence it can also be arranged into a square which can be read either horizontally or vertically:

S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S

[phildonnia]

"Leaves fall until fall leaves"
--Doug Hofstadter

Supposedly a translation of a famous chinese palindrome, however the translation is less tautological in meaning because of the play on "leaves" and "fall".

Here's the famous palindromic C program that is the reverse of it's own Rot-13:
http://www.ioccc.org/1989/westley.c

[Brown]

"Lisa Bonet ate no basil."

"When Keanu Reeves acts, he sounds like, 'Ekils d'nu osehst, case veer una eknehw!'"

[Rosencrantz]

Here's my three favorites.

Loops are macaroni, art, rain, or a camera spool.

My gym taxes sex at my gym.

Boring. I arraign. I sit. I plan. I run. I pee deep in urinal pit. I sing.
I arraign. I rob!

[LuxFerum]

Nipson anomemata me monan opsin:p

There is a lot of them in google.

[bpesta22]

Cigar, toss it in a can, it is so tragic

[Nigel]

A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda.

Rats live on no evil star.

Straw, no, to stupid a fad, I put soot on warts.

I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.

U.F.O. tofu.

Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.


Too bad, I hid a boot.

Trafalgar rag: La Fart

And the coup de grace:

Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo,
Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida,
Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina,
Lily, Arne, Betty, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl,
Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden,
Noel, and Ellen sinned.

[7th sextile]

....y'mean "Bette"?

I'd narc Randi.

[Brown]

Originally posted by 7th sextile
I'd narc Randi. I'd narrow art, straw OR Randi!

[HarryKeogh]

puppy

[SteveW]

Sit on a potato pan, Otis.

[davidhorman]

Wasn't there one about Erasmus? It was something like:

Sums are a test set for Erasmus

But obviously not that, because that's not a palindrome...

David

[michaellee]

Delia, JREF Forum editor, raps to tot's parrot. I demur. Jailed.

[JesFine]

From Spanish class:
Anita lava la tina.

For davidhorman:
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus.

[Zep]

Originally posted by michaellee
Delia, JREF Forum editor, raps to tot's parrot. I demur. Jailed. Not quite, but close!

[epepke]

Originally posted by michaellee
Delia, JREF Forum editor, raps to tot's parrot. I demur. Jailed.

s/demur/defer/

[Brown]

Draw departed in snide trap, Edward!

[Psi Baba]

Euderas are due

[Rosencrantz]

Here's some more I like:

Barclay ordered an omelette, lemonade, red royal crab.

On a limo to Milano, solo gigolos don't nod. Don't nod, solo gigolos, on a limo to Milano!

SPACESUIT! (I use caps)

Desserts stress Ed.

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

Flaccid Ron, on step, pets no Nordic calf.

Strap on no parts!

Gate-man sees name, garage-man sees name-tag.

Rewards rot in a janitor's drawer.

[Hamish]

Originally posted by michaellee
Delia, JREF Forum editor, raps to tot's parrot. I demur. Jailed.

Only needs a small alteration. Can I offer a solution?

Let me have a go at one:

Ha! Fool on tub, but no loofah!

[Brown]

Dog sees spots, stops, sees God!

[kittynh]

I'm a lasagna hog, go hang a salami

[Virgil]

Originally posted by HarryKeogh
puppy

me too!


Virgil


you guys are smart

[Hamish]

No ill I'm to bid Narnia, got to gain Randi-bot million

[michaellee]

I left out a word, oh well.Only needs a small alteration. Can I offer a solution? Go for it, Hamish.

In the mean time, here is my corrected version.

Tim? Ma? Did narc o.d.? Else, ma, JREF forum editor raps to tot's parrot. I demur. Offer James "Le Doc" Randi, dammit.

[Hamish]

Actually I don't have anything better to add to that one. What else....

Zep, ol' JREF foe, we're super! Rep us ere we offer J. Lopez.

[SteveW]

Originally posted by davidhorman
Wasn't there one about Erasmus? It was something like:

Sums are a test set for Erasmus

But obviously not that, because that's not a palindrome...

David

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus

[Brown]

Homeopath girl: "Alright! A poem! Oh!"

[Yahweh]

Natasha, is not evil Cleopatra no melon? No lemon? Art? A poe? LC? Live, tons I.... AH! SATAN!

[Vorticity]

A slut was I, ere I saw Tulsa.

[Kiless]

"In 1980, David Stephens wrote a 58,000 letter palindrome "Satire: Veritas." Lawrence Levine wrote a palindromic novel of 31,957 words, Dr. Awkward and Olson in Oslo in 1986. "In Eden, I," a poem by Richard Cox published in Word ways takes the traditional 'Madam, I'm Adam' palindrome further...." source (http://www.philobiblon.com/isitabook/games/)

[sir drinks-a-lot]

Otto.

[Bone_Vulture]

I must admit, I never knew English could produce such versatile palindromes.

This is because Finnish is one of the promised languages of palindrome creation - this is likely due to the balanced ratio and placement of vowels and consonants in Finnish words. :)

[Dog Boots]

My favourite palindrome is Danish (like me):

"Se så, Rene. Smid du nu den røde messingnisse med ørnedun ud - dimsen er Åses!"

, which means something like: "Now look, Rene. Throw out that red brass gnome with eaglefeathers - the thing belongs to Åse" ("Åse" is a common danish girl's name). And it's not even that far fetched regarding sentencing.

[Regnad Kcin]

A Toyota.

[Brown]

No rahs for a war of Sharon.

[ceo_esq]

My favorite is in Latin:

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

("At night we walk in a circle and are consumed by fire.")

[Angus McPresley]

I must admit, I never knew English could produce such versatile palindromes.


That's a terrible palindrome.

[bjb]

Here's a link to the lyrics of a Wierd Al Yankovic song called 'Bob'. I haven't heard the song but the lyrics are interesting:

http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/bob.html

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

saippuakivikauppias

[Kiless]

Here's a link to the lyrics of a Wierd Al Yankovic song called 'Bob'. I haven't heard the song but the lyrics are interesting:

http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/bob.html

:D It's a great song; I have it on DVD and he impersonates the music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues... with a distainful expression throughout...... :D

[bjb]

I hadn't seen the video before, but I found it using a video search and it's great! He sure looks a lot like Napoleon Dynamite, though:

http://www.theonenetwork.com/playvideo.asp?type=music&videoid=u_wierdalyankovic_bob

[Bone_Vulture]

saippuakivikauppias

Innostunut sonni, saippuakauppias, innostunut sonni! :rolleyes: