Continuing on my quest to make an interactive playground for creating Möbius stories in the spirit of Vi Hart’s Möbius story: Wind and Mr. Ug, I ran a computer analysis over about 56000 English words, looking for “Möbius words”.
I found 728 words that fit the bill: When “mirror-flipped” upside down, each one still looks like a word (although maybe a different word). Any Möbius story you write has to contain only Möbius words.
Below are the words I found in all their symmetric glory, printed in the Möbius story font. Now we just have to make Möbius stories out of them!
Hmm. Here’s a first try:
“tHE patHEtIC COCKatOO + I watCH tHE altO OCtEt’ aCE tHE tOCCata. tHE batHEtIC COCKatOO + I matCH tHE altO OCtEt, aCE tHE tOCCata.”
I think the most useful words in changing the meaning of the sentence are non-self symmetric words that share the same part of speech with their partner.
Very cool example! 🙂 And that’s an excellent observation!!