6 Furniture Designs With Split Personalities From The Palindrome Series inventorspot.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
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October 23, 2009
The above was supposedly spoken by Napoleon, referring to his first sighting of Elba.
Palingrams are phrases that read the same backwards and forwards. Horizontal and vertical, if need be.
It's basically the same as a palindrome, which is a single word that can be read the same in all those directions.
Not to be confused with a Palindrone, which is indecipherable in any direction.
What got me thinking about all this was getting a group email we all hate and we all read.
“I am sending this only to my smart friends. I could not figure it out and had to look at the answer. See if you can figure out what these words have in common.”
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Take a moment if you'd like.
Okay, you're back.
Yes, it's true if you removed the first letter of each you would have a perfectly imperfect palindrome, with the only problem being none them are real words.
The answer? These are the only words in the English language that if you stuck the first letter on the end, it would read the same backwards.
Grammar. rammarG.
Welcome to our Friday Lite Language series.
Are you still with me?
Palindromes occur in many western languages, but they are particularly prevalent in English due to the wide variety of reversible letter pairs within words.
Finnish, however, has been described as "the language of palindromes."
I (a perfect palindrome) could cite a few lengthy examples but that would probably finish off this post.
According to Bill Bryson's “Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way," palindromes are at least 2,000 years old.
The ancient Greeks inscribed the palindrome "ΝΙΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝΑΝΟΨΙΝ" in lavatories, meaning "Wash the sin as well as the face."
Thought you’d want to know that.
The longest palindrome in the English language is REDIVIDER. Racecar is another classic example.
And, besides Napoleon's, phrases: MADAM I'M ADAM. Do geese see God? Was it Eliot's toilet I saw? Never odd or even.
Then there are palindromic numbers like 58285. And we'll try to remind each other on the next palindromic date, 01/1/10.
A musical palindrome, like parts of Bach's "Crab Canon," is a great way to exercise your eyes, fingers, brain and make you a better sight-reader.
And, of course, anyway you look at it you’re always free to drome on in the Eye.
The Eye being, as your own keen eyes have noticed, a perfect palindrome.
Palindromes in Different Languages proz.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
History of the English Language englishclub.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
Palindrome - History experiencefestival.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
Favorite figure of speech?
3% 13% 23% 17% 37% 7%
if you take the first letter of eat and add it to the end, you get ate
but when you stand up,where does your lap go?!?
RoadYacht: This topic may or may not be a stellar success today. It will be interesting to see who does well and gets deep into the subject matter. People have different kinds of intelligence, not just identical intelligence in different degrees. Sit back and watch, as the games begin.
This should be entertaining but I'll probably sit this one out. The only one I can think of at this hour is something I heard T.V.host Dick Cavett say about former VP Spiro Agnew's name. You can rearrange the letter to spell:
grow a penis
It was hilarious when I was 12.
JULIA- you made my day! RY- are you on goofball pills this early? BERT- no fear that I will be taking the group by storm. I can see Olivia taking the site by storm- w/ Park & Cuukoo gainin on her.
Have a wonderful day- am still dreaming of ham....mmmm.....
was it a car or a cat i saw?
dammit, i'm mad!
So many dynamos!
y'all have a good one....it's finally stopped raining here..
BEBE: I don't suppose that while you are away you could snag one of those yummy Dagwood Bumstead overstuffed ham sandwiches for me? Pretty please...
goofball pills? mah ham, to be et, has not been yet. Toast, to be toasted. Eggs unscrambled,coffee undripped. And yet, I do not fret.
Another glorious day, and the usual suspects assemble, still struggling with awakening, and so I guard closely my pot of expresso, made up as though it were ordinary drip coffee.
I am usually not much of a clothes horse, I buy good stuff that lasts forever, in styles that are classical, and I don't allow my girth to increase. I did notice, however, a really nice Royal Air Force prototype flyer's scarf. Peterman is dangling morsels of his newest catalog in the margins, luring unsuspecting posters into his virtual sales room.....beware.
. .-.. ...- .. ... / .-.. .. ...- . ...
Our host writes:
"The longest palindrome in the English language is REDEVIDER."
It would be, if it were spelled correctly.
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.
Drat, such custard!
Doc, note. I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Not enought coffee for wordsmithing. It does have it's own disease though. FYI. For those more science types. Palindromic Rheumatism derives its name from the term "palindrome" - emphasizing how the illness begins and ends in a similar way.
Yay!! Our host is, or was, with us today!!
iwondering what it means? redivider
It's 9:43 and my brian hurts already! This sort of reminds me of chiasmus a little bit.
Must be something like a, Turkey Milker .......
If pumpkin pancakes were palindromes, I'd have a lot to say today. .... But I wouldn't ‘cos I couldn't since it isn't polite to talk with your mouth full.
Peace out
pumpkin pancakes with a side of petit jean ham........
This was kind of a throw-away observation by a friend.
"Those Iraqi nuclear facilities must use a lot of power and it comes from somewhere that is probably knowable. A big, probably black and heavy extension cord could be either interrupted or followed to its source and that taken out."
"In the long run, the Iraqi populace might prefer, for a while, to sit around in the dark than to glow in it."
House Guest..... I think that thought just might be a keeper..... under the catagory of "I hope you realize that it could have been a whole lot worse". Well met again Traveler.... give Stoney a nudge for me.
"pumpkin pancakes with a side of petit jean ham........" and an English muffin that sends rivers of butter over the side whenever you bite into it....... extra napkins please...
I prefer sweet potato biscuits.
and thesepia train's "Casually Elegant Breackfast Buffet Car' was born this day......
but it's spelled correctly on the sign over the door....
more latte' for Peter Lake
oh, by the way Roadyacht
next Thursday is Tin Foil Day at my daughter's school( in preperation for Homecoming)
Miss Blue, at your daughter's school, is the tin foil used to make protective headgear so that aliens cannot penetrate the children's minds?
I can't explain why, but certain activities (scrabble, chess, palindromes, Go, doing mathematical proofs, and charades, just to name a few) always seem tedious work to me.... Have fun, guys, and I'll see you tomorrow....
Doc Nolan: Don't feel inept or unintelligent. Smart people often process information differently, or stated differently, two people with identical IQ scores will each have subjects in which they do very well, whereas the other person is only average. Things like math and language come to mind. We all know you are smart, so is Jalopkin, so are many posters here, but not with the exact same talents.
Me? Time to shower, put on respectable clothes, and try not to embarrass my dinner date. But 1st I need some dark roast, to "jump start" my brain....long, long week. Monsoon season here, rains all day & night.
My brain is fried today. So, instead I shall quote my favorite philosopher:
"I can count to potato!" - Ralph Wiggum
I am still on the ham and buttermilk biscuits (Sunday morning fare). My brain enjoys clever people but I am not one of them.
Yes I sey!!
Misspelled but I'm with MICHAEL. FRIED.
The new computer is up and running good.
I've started to bring the plants into the house, SPACE, I need more SPACE!!!
A greenhouse would be wonderful.
The CEREUS is taking over, along with the angel wing bigonias, cactus and avacado trees.
I am one: Eve
more on the honor rolland a very nice one indeed!
What in the world is tin foil day? Are you supposed to wear an outfit fashioned out of tin foil or bring a roll to donate to the homeless? We just had pocket day at my local school. The kids prepare by asking people many pockets they have on their clothes and tally them up in several different ways. I have no idea why.
“Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash.
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.N
ame not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.
Now read it backwards. Demetri Martin, ladies and gentlemen.
Geri: Cut yourself some slack...."clever" is not all it's cracked up to be.
Korthal: Save some avacados for me, or at least use one of those giant seeds to start me a tree.
Julia: Tin foil is often thought to be insulation against alien intruders trying to control your brain. This concept evolves into creative aluminum foil headware.....at facilities for the paranoid.
The rain is coming down really hard, nevertheless my kid informed me that she wants me OUT....lol Hasta manana...
you beat me to it bert.....geri, bert is right...! and i like ham and buttermilk biscuits, but not with each other..don't do gravy either..even though i make it....and i've never had a canned ham..although i have had canned biscuits......go figure...
I'm no good at word games, I can't do 'em, I leave them to you smart people. I need to keep my words orderly or I worry that one day I'll look at them in disarray and find that they make more sense that way than the other.
Houseguest: So good, a definite keeper. Gee, but you remind me of someone with similar verbal abilities. Can't think of who, now.
Enjoy your evening, Eye Villagers. Better grab your umbrella for the dash to thesepia train, it's 'raining all over the world', it seems...
PARK, yeah it's raining all over my world, and isn't it romantic? Time to light some matches under the wood in the fireplace...
love it Daniel.
Oh heh. I finally GOT it, DV. Call me s l o w .
Hello, I'm new, and will try to say something worth saying. First, I think the "eye" that sees the words above (at least quickly) as transformable by dropping the first letter must be the eye that quickly apprehends things like Escher drawings, or even blueprints . . .unfortunately, that's not my eye; the written word goes directly to my overdeveloped etymology/analogy/analysis center . . .So, though I know the palindrome of Elba, the way it struck me was as a curious welcome to the site, as I happen to have been pursuing a maggot regarding Napoleon and his long and curious afterlife in the culture (particularly in song, but "Able was I" is certainly a serendipitously first day at this site!)
Myself, I've always assumed he said something like "Merde", but probably in Corsican!
Michael!
I just saw the "potato" post.
Funny!, and me too, me too.
over and out...
Park4: We all must take our wisdom where we find it.
I believe tonight is a good night to sit on the end of the Sepia-Caboose and watch the world go by backwards.
Michael, GREAT one!
Finally, after the coffee, the day, the wine...
I yam, may I?
wisdom? found with hubby who finally made it home. And was helpful!
just34me - Welcome to the EyE. Thanks for contributing.
Very Kind of you Bert, but you're just saying that cuz its True .......
Michael: "watching the world go by backwards." Wow. I'm with Penn on that -- so good. I'll join you next time, out there, if I may.
PARK4: Some things backwards ain't so bad ..............