A little off topic, but ...

I learned a long time ago that in Japanese they use a slightly different concept of "palindrome".

Since the Japanese language uses syllables (eg. "a", "i", "u", "ka", "ki", "ku", "sa", "shi", "su", etc.) instead of individual letters, their "palindromes" are made up of phrases in which the individual syllables can be read the same way forwards and backwards: 

Kankei nai kenka    (= ka n ke i na i ke n ka)   English:  "an unrelat
+ed argument"
Natsu made matsu na (= na tsu ma de ma tsu na)   English:  "don't wait
+ until summer"

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And even though it's not a palindrome, if you ask a Japanese person to say the word "tebukuro" (English = "glove") backwards, it comes out as "rokubute", which means "hit me 6 times", at which point you emphasize the joke by punching them on the arm.
s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/

In reply to Re^2: Improving a palindrome script... by liverpole
in thread Improving a palindrome script... by chinamox

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