Word problem

Discussion in 'Linguistics' started by blobrana, Jul 14, 2008.

  1. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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    What do these words have in common?
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    Banana
    Dresser
    Grammar
    Potato
    Revive
    Uneven
    Assess
     
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  3. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    leave me outta this!
     
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  5. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    two sets of doubled up letters
     
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  7. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    I'm also good at cards.
     
  8. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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    Good try,
    but not the correct answer i have written down.
     
  9. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    Better than a good try, it's correct. There must be two or more correct answers.
     
  10. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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    Yes,
    like all the words are all written in post one of this thread; or they all begin with capital letters.

    But not the answer i have written down.
     
  11. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    They all contain palindromes, think I got it!
     
  12. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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    Yes,
    close enough.
    The first letter when moved to the end of the word, spells the word backwards.

    My real question is what is that called?
     
  13. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    Good but there's no way my pee is going up my arse.
     
  14. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    They were all in "Ask Marilyn" a couple of weeks ago.

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  15. thecollage Registered Senior Member

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    I have a boat.
     
  16. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I'm not sure it has a name. How many words like that are there, and how long did it take somebody to notice them?

    Palin-drome is just the Greek equivalent of Latin re-current: "running back." So maybe these are pseudopalindromes.
     
  17. Why? Registered Senior Member

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    While eating a french fried potato, I slipped on a banana peel on uneven pavement and before I could assess the situation and be revived to my senses, I blurted out an expletive in improper grammar after hitting my head on the dresser.
     
  18. DJ Erock Resident Skeptic Registered Senior Member

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    palindromes are fun my favorite is: "go hang a salami, i'm a lasagna hog"
     
  19. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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    i concur.

    @DJ Erock
    yeah,

    132 + 231 = 363
     
  20. Letticia Registered Senior Member

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    Isn't English one of relatively few languages where "true" (letter-by-letter) palindromes are even possible? In Russian it is all but impossible to write a sentence which spells same backward and forward, because endings of Russian verbs and adjectives are very asymmetrical, and their reverses simply do not exist in that language, even on word boundaries. When a Russian says "palindrome" he usually means word-to-word palindrome -- a sentence or a paragraph with same word order forward and backward. I don't think true palindromes are possible in French either, for the same reason.
     
  21. Diode-Man Awesome User Title Registered Senior Member

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    Inside the dresser there was a banana that was unevenly shaped like a potato. After eating the fruit I slipped into a coma, the doctor assesed that I had to be revived: I awoke with poor grammar.
     
  22. Michael 歌舞伎 Valued Senior Member

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    an na
    es se
    am ma
    ot to
    ev ve
    ne en
    ss ss
     
  23. blobrana Registered Senior Member

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