Poll Suggestion: Palindrome Posters

Do you suggest the use of "ambigram" instead of palindrome?

cinephile,

Although Palindrome Posters is not as accurate as Ambigram Posters, Palindrome Posters is probably easier to understand for most people. Ambigram is not a common word. I had forgotten the word myself and should get may copy of Hofstadter's book off the shelf to find the reference to the word.

... or someone who enjoys word play.

I don't  believe that 

Karthik calling Karthik
and
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai

is eligible for the poll,  they are only containing repetition words.

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- R.O.T.O.R.

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- Anna

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- Anna

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R.O.T.O.R.!  Yeah!  :P

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I think that the only posters that don't fit in the description of Palindrome is
The Princess Bride.

1) In the beginning, I wanted to do the poll only about poster stylized to be Palindromes. After a week of research, I gave up, because this design is pretty unique to this poster some have made fan arts but no official poster seems to have done the same thing.

2) I don't want to do a poll about Palindrome Titles, most of the titles in the list are a single name or word, it would be pretty stupid to put them in competition.

3) On recommendation of Dan Dassow, I have avoided the word "Ambigram" that fits every suggestion of the poll.

4) I like the title "Palindrome Posters", it forms an Alliteration: Palindrome Posters.

I'm also researching to formulate the "Discuss here" as a palindrome, but it is very hard.

In what way are the posters for "Dad" or "Pip", for instance, stylized as ambigrams?

An ambigram is a visual pun of a special kind: a calligraphic design having two or more (clear) interpretations as written words. One can voluntarily jump back and forth between the rival readings usually by shifting one’s physical point of view (moving the design in some way) but sometimes by simply altering one’s perceptual bias towards a design (clicking an internal mental switch, so to speak). Sometimes the readings will say identical things, sometimes they will say different things.

- Douglas Hofstadter 

Words like "Dad" and "Pipe" are ambigrams because they are read the same backward.


Also, the title "Symmetric Posters" doesn't solve the problem. Since the beginning people are arguing with the title, they want a more precise title. "Symmetric Posters" would be a great title if we were talking about a real symmetric poster, but in that case, we are only referring to writing in the poster.

Finally, I'm gonna change the title to "Ambigram Posters", I'm frustrated to throw away my wonderful title containing an Alliteration, but I feel that as in "Epidemic Movies", I'm never gonna get out of this debate and this poll is never gonna get Live if I stick to my current title.

"Man of faith VS. Man of Science" is a poll by Paok.

I totally agree with your statement, I have nothing to add.

My point was not the title, but that the list is a mix of ideas.

I don't think your quotation supports the notion that simple palindromes like "Dad" or "Pip" are ambigrams that are comparable to some of the other title designs.

Then we are in a dead-end:

Options:

1)If you don't think that "Dad" and "Pip" are ambigrams that means that there is only one ambigram in the whole poll, so the poll is never going live.

2) If I name the title "Palindrome Posters" we are also in a dead-end because it includes each one except for the Princess Bride. so the poll is never going live.

3) If I name the poll "Symmetrical Poster" someone is gonna complain that the title is not precise enough.

4) Deleting The Princess Bride is not envisaged because I built the list for it.

5) The poll can't be split into two parts because there 0 posters similar to The Princess Bride

6) I could name to poll "Palindrome/Ambigram/Palingram/Semordnilap" but I'm gonna get tell that the title is too long and complex and etc.

In conclusion, I see no way to escape, this poll is NEVER going live.

Thanks.

It is a bit sad that some posters are cropped because the text is not always visible especially when written on the bottom.