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The HN crowd does not have sense of humour:)
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I hope you don't get down voted like the previous comment :)
Visually symmetric words
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Re: Visually symmetric words
#42"racecar" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee.
Actually "butt tub" is a palindrome that you cannot unsee. Even at a young age I had a very sophisticated sense of humor....
Re: Visually symmetric words
#43There's an Swedish fantasy role playing game/novel[0] in which there's a city called HOXOH (all uppercase). It's also known as the "City of Illusions" and home to the magical Academy of Illusionists (who are often practicing their art in the streets). It was given its name partly due to the fact that the word could be read and mirrored in any direction without becoming distorted/assymetric.
[0] The RPG is called Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons) and is roughly the Swedish equivalent of D&D, though it's actually based on the BRPG rules. The supplement that introduced HOXOH was eventually used as a basis for a series of (quite interesting) fantasy novels written by the very author that originally wrote the RPG supplement.
Re: Visually symmetric words
#44The brand "newman" was a thing when I was a kid.
My mind got blown out the day someone made me notice you could rotate the logo 180 degrees and end up with the same logo.
Wikipedia has the official logo and animation showing it in action:
Re: Visually symmetric words
#45I once made a little puzzle that involves this idea: https://hcs64.itch.io/fitting-words
Hey that was really good! Took me a minute to figure out the concept and then suddenly 20min was gone, a sign of a good puzzle!
You should totally try expanding on this
Re: Visually symmetric words
#46I once made a little puzzle that involves this idea: https://hcs64.itch.io/fitting-words
I spent a minute thinking ROTOR was impossible until I realized the asymmetry in the ruleset. Neat puzzle.
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#47You can take words that aren’t naturally symmetric and draw them symmetrically. You get ambigrams, like this:
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like there isn't much material to expand upon "()()" versus "())(". I prefer this other article about palindromes: Was It A Cat I Saw? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33285198
I had to work harder than expected to get this. I interpret the cartoon as distinguishing between meaning and form. Until I read it aloud, I couldn't stop interpreting the strings as open close open close in both directions.
Thanks for explaining this.. I honestly had no idea, even tried to google it.
Re: Visually symmetric words
#49I 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
> He only includes "MAAM" which oddly enough is not a Scrabble word.
What's odd about that? ISNT, DONT, ARENT, COULDNT, SHOULDNT, none of them are Scrabble words. More generally, you're not allowed to misspell words in Scrabble.
Re: Visually symmetric words
#50What about cursive, where mirroring/rotating does not even produce the same number of letters?
(eg.: google love hate mirror image)