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BEYOND LANGUAGE by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 338 pages. Scr/bner...
This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his trip into the secret world beyond language also can be played by the ordinary reader, particularly if he is a genius...
LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa...
...Borgmann provides an amusing section on rhopalic sentences in which each word has one letter more than the last ("I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting"), and some helpful hints for the Scrabble set (aaa is a hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section...
Also represented: Sotadic verses, pangrammatic rubaiyat and problems in alphametics (alphabet arithmetic). They are all wonderfully ingenious and entertaining, and so is Author Borgmann, who dazzles right down to the last word - which happens to be a palindrome: ZZZZ. But the last word really belongs to the readers, and it will doubtless be another palindrome...