Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrKsI-0002Oo-6G for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:57:18 -0800 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GrKs9-0002Ob-TK for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:57:18 -0800 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so2876390uge for ; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:57:05 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k1suR46FK1URv+gyyHsBlsmgoDuixRG6IdxZi1L1RYCyNSQEHDh0B0MuTYeDh9K4hyToOq4dko+AylS49byKy/yiaFjAxlMfkB81Gp0IfLFl5BNMU2Zg82kbh2B3jN0OW9KyTaKXyIZBcrbwKUkExjHKDPjIW5T5Pu9q7XuMhYM= Received: by 10.78.149.15 with SMTP id w15mr8077028hud.1165265824526; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:57:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.144.3 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:57:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:57:03 -0500 From: "Matt Arnold" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: palindromes? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061204202426.43026.qmail@web81413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 3788 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 818 Oops! That'll teach me to not search the wiki first: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Palindromes # .u'e jimsmi je'u (palindrome: (Wonder! It's really metal-like!) # .u'i lu dargu gradu li'u (expresses amusement at the phrase "road unit") # .a'a si'ugle melgu'isa'a (Ah! Copulating beautiful-light-singers!) # .ua vibjbi vau (Aha! vaginal-near-thing!) -Eppcott On 12/4/06, Matt Arnold wrote: > Good question! It should be possible to either create a Lojban > palindrome as proof, or work out a formal proof that the Lojban > morphology rules about the sequence of vowels and consonants would > prevent it. > -Eppcott > > On 12/4/06, Gene Mosley wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if any Lojban palindromes exist? > > > > Are they even possible? > > >