The World's Longest Palindrome - Democratic Underground

Kire

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Wed Aug-24-05 01:42 AM
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The World's Longest Palindrome

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http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm

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skids

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Wed Aug-24-05 02:14 AM
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1. Here's a mental excercise...

...not a palindrome, but fun. Make new sentences by adding "that" to the beginning of the last sentence, and some words to the end of the sentence, but never add the same words to the end of a sentence twice.

Use the minimum number of distinct words you can to get as many "that"'s as you can. (Start with a 0 word "empty" sentence.)

That we saw.

That that we saw saw us.

That that that we saw saw us saw we.

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Kire

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Wed Aug-24-05 02:41 AM
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2. I don't get it.

sorry, could you give us an example?

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petgoat

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Wed Aug-24-05 09:36 PM
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6. Try changing a "that" to which, just for conceptualizing

That which we saw saw us.

That that which we saw saw us saw we.

Somehow I get a brain-out and can't imagine what a "That that that
that..." might mean.

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whistle

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Wed Aug-24-05 05:02 AM
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3. Shouldn't a palindrome at least make a little sense?

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Kire

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Wed Aug-24-05 09:28 PM
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5. how come the word "palindrome" isn't a palindrome"

emordnilap, that's not "palindrome"

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GoBlue

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Wed Aug-24-05 05:52 AM
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4. Not true...

Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 05:52 AM by GoBlue

punctuation and letter spacing isn't the same. The devil's in the details.

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