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Originally posted by chessmaster111
Shiny Knight and bowmann are winning so far
Incorrect. I submitted one with a total of just 4 letters.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
here is one we hams use, but I'm not sure of its origin, in CW
work, (morse code), de means "this is"
so de ed
But that breaks the rules on a couple of fronts, ed is a noun.
Why are you so worried about nouns?

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Originally posted by Bowmann

Don't you mean 'war is raw'?

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Nope; darn noun rule.
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Originally posted by Bowmann
Then please do translate it, for those of us whose Latin is a little rusty.
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Originally posted by Shiny Knight
Originally posted by Bowmann

Don't you mean 'war is raw'?

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Nope; darn noun rule.
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The rule excludes proper nouns (which is the same as proper names). The problem with "war is raw" is not the noun, but the fact that it's not a palindrome. "War's raw" would work, though.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Why are you so worried about nouns?
Yeah, forgot nouns are ok, its Proper nouns that are forbidden.

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BTW for long palindromes, the best one ever in my book is this:
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

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Originally posted by Nordlys
The rule excludes [b]proper nouns (which is the same as proper names). The problem with "war is raw" is not the noun, but the fact that it's not a palindrome. "War's raw" would work, though.[/b]
Aha! Thanks for explaining that.

'Are stars rats?'-era.

= a sentence in a non-sentence...?

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Why are you so worried about nouns?
i said proper noun (for anyone who is stupid, that is a noun that has a capital letter (like London)).

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Incorrect. I submitted one with a total of just 4 letters.
Oops, you are winning

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Originally posted by chessmaster111
Oops, you are winning
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no devils lived on

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Originally posted by chessmaster111
i said proper noun (for anyone who is stupid, that is a noun that has a capital letter (like London)).
I hope you're telling SinHouse and not me. 'Cause if you're not...

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Originally posted by Nordlys
"War's raw" would work, though.
Well spotted. That is, of course, what I meant. Naturally, my "error" was deliberate.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Go!
I find no evidence of this.


Anyway, if single-verb sentences are allowed, and coming back to English, then we could have: Noon.

That's right, noon exists as a verb.

(And that's another 4-letter winner.)

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A bit of drama:

'On one moon no omen? O no!'


Is 'lol' a verb?

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