A 17,259 word Palindrome

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:23 am

http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html

I really don't get this -- while it may be a palindrome in the purely defined meaning of the word, it's complete gibberish. I thought the whole point of a palindrome was that it should make sense?

Jardice · Post by **Jardice** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:35 am

hmm...hever heard of the palindrome setentce structure before..what kind of vocab/grammer/whatever is it suppose to be?

That may help me understand why this doesn't make any sense.

Post by **Zyx** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:25 am

Maybe a bad joke or a failure?
A palindrome is supposed to be read the same in both directions, that is from left to right and from right to left.
French authors Georges Perec wrote a 1371 words palindrome and Pol Kools a 1600 words palindrome.
check here:
http://www.mots-de-tete.com/palindromes/perec.php3
http://www.mots-de-tete.com/palindromes/pol-kools.php3

(I heard there are also some long palindromes in German)

Jardice · Post by **Jardice** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:19 am

Ah I remember now...My sister had A book on the simple ones..

I think I get now why it's gibberish...itwas probably just made to prove that you can make one that long.

Post by **Ameena** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:32 pm

A few nice short little palindromes include...

Rats live on no evil star
Madam, I'm Adam
A man, a map, Panama

Erm, those are the only ones I think I know...

FallenSeraphin · Post by **FallenSeraphin** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:42 am

So its a free word combo

purple1 · Post by **purple1** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:52 pm

Well, it IS a palindrome, but it isn't humorous like "Rats live on no evil star" (this one is directly a palindrome-no changing of spaces or punctuation! I like it!)

Other palindromes i like:
A man, a plan, a canal, panama
A Toyota
Racecar
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

Post by **Lunever** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:24 am

Hmm, the palindromes I have to cope with currently are less poetic... mirroring DNA-parts are called palindromes too, like AGAGAGCTCTCT (G/C and A/T mirroring).

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:44 pm

That just reminded me of an interesting film: GATTACA I always thought it was cool that they made the name from the DNA letter pairs. Not a palindrome though!

purple1 · Post by **purple1** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:24 pm

Interesting. I never noticed that. It makes sense, though.

Post by **Lunever** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:20 am

But then it's strange that they took 7 letters, cause it's 3 letters coding 1 protein-segment (dunno the propper english words for them).

purple1 · Post by **purple1** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:44 pm

Maybe they just wanted a simple, short, cool name. Try and make a neat name with DNA base pairs.

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:06 pm

So the names bob and otto are palindromes!

Post by **Gambit37** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:02 am

I don't think Gattaca was supposed to be as clever as that; it's just simply using the available letters to make a cool sounding name, as purple1 says. Highly enjoyable film by the way, very stylised, though I don't much like Ethan Hawke as an actor.