List some sentences that can be radically altered by changing word boundaries and punctuation.

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List some sentences that can be radically altered by changing word boundaries
and punctuation.

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Issues topping our mail: manslaughter.
Is Sue stopping our mailman's laughter?

The real ways I saw it.
There always is a wit.

You read evil tomes, Tim, at Ed's issue.
"You're a devil, Tom!" estimated sis Sue.

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jb@xenon.tmc.edu (Jim Battle) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone knows of anagrams that don't change the
>order of the letters, but only changes where the spaces are.  I'm
>sure they exists, and maybe there's even a name for such things.

Yes!  They are called "charades", according to the book "Palindromes
and Anagrams", by Howard W. Bergerson, Dover, 1973, ISBN
0-486-20664-5.  Here are some examples from the book:

  Amiable together.
  Am I able to get her?

  How fleet, O mere mote elfin, ever lovely in groves.
  How flee to me, remote elf? I never love lying roves.
  (Don't ask me what that is supposed to mean, but notice the
    palindrome "Flee to me, remote elf")

  Hiss, caress pursuit, or astound, O roc -- O cobras.
  His scares spur suitor as to undo rococo bras.

Bergerson says:  "Charades, unlike palindromes, have very little
history behind them.  They need not be merely couplet length ... but,
so far, no one has composed any longer ones." (pp. 4-5)

-- David C. LeDoux <ledoux@pogo.den.mmc.com>