Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by MississippiGary » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 6:39 AM UTC

Was It A Cat I Saw?
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Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by pfdietz » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:06 AM UTC

Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes.

Also: Weird Al's "Bob" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by kleiba » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:13 AM UTC

This calls for automatic generation with language models.

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by kleiba » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:14 AM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #2

Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes. Also: Weird Al's "Bob" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

"Video unavailable. The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by asicsp » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:25 AM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #3

This calls for automatic generation with language models.

Not sure about language models, but here's one generated programmatically: https://norvig.com/palindrome.html

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by alexmolas » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:40 AM UTC

Barry Duncan: I wrote a palindrome for a friend that's 800 words long.

Peter Norvig: Hold my beer [1]

[1]: https://norvig.com/palindrome.html

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:41 AM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #4

pfdietz wrote: post #2

Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes. Also: Weird Al's "Bob" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

"Video unavailable. The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

The entire song is made up of palindromes. It contains the following variation of the post title:

Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by kleiba » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 11:42 AM UTC

asicsp wrote: post #5

kleiba wrote: post #3

This calls for automatic generation with language models.

Not sure about language models, but here's one generated programmatically: https://norvig.com/palindrome.html

A language model could help to create text that's not so artificial, I would think.

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by TGRush » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 12:15 PM UTC

pfdietz wrote: post #2

Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes. Also: Weird Al's "Bob" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

Its funny how this is also a palindrome.

Re: Was It A Cat I Saw?

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Post by branon » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 12:48 PM UTC

I remember reading an article years ago (mid-2000s, must have been) about an entire book that used palindromes extensively. I believe it was sci-fi-adjacent, only thing I remember distinctly was something called "ylyly" in the book.

Ylyly was a planet, I think. Haven't ever been able to find this again. Anyone know what I'm talking about?