Do you know what a Palindrome is? (French)










A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or
sentence that reads the same in either direction.

The word “palindrome” was coined from the Greek roots (palin)
“back” and (dromos) “way, direction”.
If you are called Neven, Eve, or Otto,
your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the
same way.
Palindromes may consist of a single word: radar, rotor, kayak,
ressasser, malayalam.
Palindromes may be phrase or sentence: Esope reste ici et se
repose. (Aesop is resting here and relaxing.)
Other known palindromes in French are:
Elu par cette crapule. (Elected by that crook.)
Tu l’as trop ecrase cesar ce port salut.
Etna: lave devalante. (Etna: spreading lava.)
Et Luc colporte trop l’occulte. (And Luc spreads occult
things too much)
A l’autel elle alla, elle le tua la. (To the altar she went,
she killed him there.)
Ce repère, Perec.
Léon, émir cornu, d’un roc rime Noël.
Caser vite ce palindrome ne mord ni lape cet ivre sac


-- On the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002
(numeric palindrome) Peter Norwig created a computer program which
generated the world’s longest palindrome. It consisted of 17,259
words. This is a simple sequence of words, but the text itself makes no
sense.
The “Grand Palindrome” (1969) by novelist Georges Perec is the
longest palindrome published in French, with 5 566 letters, which is the
result of the palindromic multiplication 11*23*2*11.
TOPIC : Do you know what a Palindrome is? (French)  SOURCE : Linguistic Studies ** http://languages.forumactif.org/