Re: palindrome to pluralize
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 13:48 |
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Good point. Palindromes are usually defined as being sequences that
are "spelled" the same backwards and forwards, which is obviously
dependent on the writing system. As a linguistic feature I imagine it
would be a phonetic equivalence instead, but it could be at either the
syllable or phoneme level.
Syllabic palindromishness seems more natlangishly plausible to me,
since in the simplest cases it could be just reduplication (1 tatu, 2
tatuta; 1 bolu, 2 bolubo). I interpreted the question to mean
phonemic, though. (1 tatu -> 2 tatutat: 1 bolu -> 2 bolulob).
As I said there are various ways to yield a palindrome. Maybe removal
instead of/in addition to suffixation: ( tat, bolob ). Or full
mirroring (tatuutat, boluulob)...
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Doesn't this depend on the form of writing? I...
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On 7/30/08, andrew <hobbit@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> Tas -> sat does not form a palindrome anywhere. That's just
>> reversal. Tas -> tassat forms a palindrome. Duplication is just the
>> mechanism ised to get a palindrome result. Other mechanisms are
>> possible but less general.
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> Doesn't this depend on the form of writing? I seem to remember that
> Chinese palindromes reverse the order of characters. So tas kin could
> be tas kin kin tas in the plural. Just a suggestion,
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