[lojban-beginners] Re: palindromes?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Gene Mosley wrote:
>
>
> > Does anyone know if any Lojban palindromes exist?
> >
> > Are they even possible?
>
>
> They're definitely possible.  Someone on irc mentioned that {.ua vibjbi vau}
> dates from really early on.  I'm attaching a bunch more, along with the perl
> script that found them.  I'm sure others can create more sophisticated ones,
> but this should do for an existence proof.
>
> perl -nle '($a = $_) =~ s/.$//; print ".i $_ ".(reverse $a)."i" if $A{reverse $a}; $A{$a}++' gismu 
>
> .i cutci ctuci
> .i dirba bridi
> .i dirce cridi
> .i gradu dargi
> .i jdice cidji

This code is substituting the last letter of the second gismu with "i", 
which often produces a non-word.

phma