The Latin palindrome “Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas” (roughly “The farmer by his labour keeps the wheels to the plough”) is remarkable for the fact that it reproduces itself also if one forms a word from the first letters, then the second letters and so forth. Hence it can also be arranged into a square which can be read either horizontally or vertically:<\/p>\nS A T O R
\nA R E P O
\nT E N E T
\nO P E R A
\nR O T A S<\/em><\/p>\n
Isn’t that just too cool for words!?
\nWell, evidently not. *snicker*<\/p>\n
Some of my other favorites, listed:<\/p>\n
Able was I, ere I saw Elba. (the famous Napoleon’s Lament, source unknown)<\/p>\n
I nam\u2019d am devil Eros; a sore-liv\u00e9d madman, I.<\/p>\n
Name now one man’s sensuousness. Name now one man.<\/p>\n
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? (Bill Bryson)<\/p>\n
“Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.” (John Taylor, the Water Poet)<\/p>\n
Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver.”<\/p>\n
Aias sadas saia: “It rains white bread in the garden.” (Estonian)<\/p>\n
“Esope reste ici et se repose”: “Aesop is resting here and relaxing” (French)<\/p>\n
“Et la marine va, papa, venir \u00e0 Malte”: “And the navy, father, is coming to Malta” (French)<\/p>\n
Eh, \u00e7a va la vache?: “Hey, how you doing, cow ?” (French)<\/p>\n
R\u00e1m n\u00e9met nem lel, elmentem \u00e9n m\u00e1r: “The Germans won’t find me, I’m already gone.” (1943) (Hungarian)<\/p>\n
\u00c8 Dio, lo gnomo mongoloide?: Is the mongoloid gnome God? (Italian)<\/p>\n
Sum summus mus. (“I am the mightiest mouse.”) (Latin)<\/p>\n
God apa gavs galna anlag, svag apa dog: Meaning “Good monkey was given crazy genetic disposition, weak monkey died.” — note that all the spaces match, which is rare for longer palindromes. (Swedish)<\/p>\n
anropa aporna!: Meaning “Call the monkeys!”. (Swedish)<\/p>\n
Woo, Swedish monkey palindromes! Life rocks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Linguistics are fun! Answers.com presents: palindromes! This part blows my mind: The Latin palindrome “Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas” (roughly “The farmer by his labour keeps the wheels to the plough”) is remarkable for the fact that it reproduces itself also if one forms a word from the first letters, then the second letters and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}