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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Mark Rosenfelder</b>
on <!--date-->1:11 9/13/01
<p>In reply to: <a href="163.html">Pangram</a> posted by Philip Newton</b> on 14:50 9/11/01
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<p>Sorry not to give this the attention I normally would. My mind can't
seem to stray far from yesterday's tragedy.
<p>Anyway, nice work on the pangrams... in a sense I feel like anything
I would attempt would be tainted, since it might seem that I can invent
words to make it work! Not that I would, but it's more impressive when
someone else does it.
<p>For palindromes, the best I could do with a few minutes' work was
<b>Rho e nachal esë, lachane orh</b>, which would mean something like
"It's not my government; gold should be." This of course assumes that
<b>e</b> and <b>ë</b> are allowed to 'match'. What the imperative
of <b>lachan</b> 'should' means is a bit tricky too, but hey, just because
we can't say "May it should be!" in English doesn't mean we can't in
Verdurian. :)
<p>As for multi-diacritic words... it occurred to me that for proportion,
<b>vuáë</b> itself does pretty well, if written in capitals--
3 of 4. For a longer word, perhaps <b>tësvuáëë</b>,
the masculine plural genitive of 'unanimous', 5 of 8. Again, you have
to use capitals, so V has a diacritic!
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