Comments on: Ouliperrata and Palindromes https://nickm.com/post/2013/10/ouliperrata-and-palindromes/ Nick Montfort Fri, 13 May 2016 18:20:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2013/10/ouliperrata-and-palindromes/comment-page-1/#comment-737091 Fri, 13 May 2016 18:20:01 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3273#comment-737091 Thanks for clearing this up, Marc. Although I don’t have the ability to appreciate the French, it’s interesting to me to see how palindromes make a lexical assertion about what is the same letter. œ is apparently the same as o followed by e; letters with diacritical marks are considered the same as letters without (or with different marks).

]]> By: Marc Lowenthal https://nickm.com/post/2013/10/ouliperrata-and-palindromes/comment-page-1/#comment-737087 Fri, 13 May 2016 16:04:29 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3273#comment-737087 Regarding this O/OE matter, I believe something did get dropped out in the digital version: the actual french is: “BELZABUTH, OEIL OFFENSÉ”: “œ” is typically one character in French, so “oeil” must have turned into “o il” accidentally along the way somewhere.

]]> By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2013/10/ouliperrata-and-palindromes/comment-page-1/#comment-33008 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:31:03 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3273#comment-33008 Oh tubez of the Internet … it seems you are right, but there may be a mistake in the digital edition of the palindrome; I don’t have a printed version of it. Or perhaps, instead of being a bug, it’s a clinamen.

]]> By: Jean-Bernard Roux https://nickm.com/post/2013/10/ouliperrata-and-palindromes/comment-page-1/#comment-32807 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:39:49 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3273#comment-32807 For me there is a bug in “Le grand palindrome” of Georges Perec (without symbol and accents):
… BELZEBUTH, O IL OFFENSE …
is in face of
…FOLIE OH TUBEZ LE BRIO…

Where is the E of the word FOLIE?

Perhaps there is a possibility of writing Ô as OE but I am not sure.

What do you think?

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