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Amusing Palindromic words.

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Posted 10/09/09 - 04:57 AM: Subject: Amusing Palindromic words.	#1
Do palindromic words have any meaning for them to occur in natural languages, I mean have the words been constructed in such a way as to be palindroms or it's sheer coincidence?
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Posted 10/09/09 - 09:59 AM:	#2
I once knew a guy named Otto. I am certain that his parents deliberately gave him a palindrome name, since it was clear from the very first that he'd never know whether he was coming or going.
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Posted 10/09/09 - 02:18 PM:	#3
The Bearded Monkey wrote: Do palindromic words have any meaning for them to occur in natural languages, I mean have the words been constructed in such a way as to be palindroms or it's sheer coincidence? Well, its limited to languages which have letters for one (and where the written language is a phoenetic transcription of the spoken). The question wouldn't mean anything in chinese or in sign language for example.

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Posted 10/09/09 - 04:20 PM:	#4
I doubt there is any hidden meaning behind the existence of palindromes any more than there is a reason that "dog" spelled backwards is "god". Edited by unenlightened on 10/09/09 - 06:29 PM. Reason: punctuation, capitals.
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Posted 10/09/09 - 07:30 PM:	#5
Gadfly II wrote: I doubt there is any hidden meaning behind the existence of palindromes any more than there is a reason that "dog" spelled backwards is "god". That is no coincidence! It is called "dogma" precisely beause it always gets god backwards.
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Posted 10/10/09 - 07:38 AM:	#6
Shame, I thought this was a list of amusing palindromes... Can we start one? 1. Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas

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Posted 10/11/09 - 12:00 PM:	#7
unenlightened wrote: That is no coincidence! It is called "dogma" precisely because it always gets god backwards. Oh, I get it. People who are dogmatist think they are right because they am god!
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Posted 10/11/09 - 12:22 PM:	#8
How is this one? "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. Name 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." - Demetri Martin Supported by EVIAN yes, expensive tap water... spell it backwards NAIVE, you get what you pay for! MEOWEOM! GREG
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Posted 10/11/09 - 07:42 PM:	#9
mayor of simpleton wrote: How is this one? You are a god among insects. Or rather, Demetri Martin is. That is very cool

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