Visually symmetric words • Hacker News Board

tobr wrote: post #15

arketyp wrote: post #5

Treating 'u' and 'n' as symmetric is a bit cheating. Luckily, they are also rotationally symmetric words, like 'snus' and 'pod'.

I always appreciated the rotational symmetry of “up”/“dn” (as seen on some keyboards in the context of Page up and Page down).

Holy shit. T I L.

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by downboots » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

rex_lupi wrote: post #2

Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while

Perhaps https://youtu.be/qTBAW-Eh0tM at cost of breaking symmetry

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by mrexroad » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:38 PM UTC

_448 wrote: post #20

2devnull wrote: post #17

wow

The HN crowd does not have sense of humour:)

non

Re: Visually symmetric words

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Post by zuminator » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:45 PM UTC

I don't see how you can allow lowercase "m" and "u" as symmetrical without also by the same principles including "n." In which case there are other words like "nun" and "non." Also "MAM" and "MOM" are symmetrical and are words (at least, Scrabble words. He only includes "MAAM" which oddly enough is not a Scrabble word.)

More along those lines here: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_records.html