From: Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no (Ulf Lunde)
Subject: What to call such phrases
Organization: Kvatro A/S, Trondheim, Norway
Date: 31 Jul 92 22:10:53

A week or two ago, someone posted about sentences which can be read
in two (or more) different ways, by moving around the interword
spaces and the punctuation marks, but without rearranging the letters.

Here's a little story I wrote together with some friends after reading
those postings. The story is in Norwegian, which I am sure Usenet will 
appreciate.  :-)
There are two ways to read the story.  I'll show them both:

Naar alle tar ild i gjengene, rer mor opp ille nede med nabosengene.
O gale nepaler, anmeld Evil Devils og arbeid under kirken!
Har pundet ull, er mannen som trykte salte tall mektig dyr,
som hva lensen derimot tager en slange i *skremmende toev* er steget.
Se, man eser!  Ti fiser er bedre enn de tordenbrak aldrende monark
i vertikal diskant alene slepent presterer.  Ikke bable, da, Line!
Steng revens ti digre skjulesteder.  Ett er magert aa legge runder
paa trykk.  Paa Kjoersaas, tygg edamer!  Av en ytrefilet to gauda.
Snusen generer og en naa.  Bruk bartenderen Dag.  Badeanden Ester
minerer ute naa.  Doerstokken naar ikke til taket vaart.  Der!  Et
eggeskall i kefir er ikke kopier.  Kult det er i natten aa ringe neste
kokeri (saape-).  Aligatorens urskog i Brasil tillater ikke forbrenning.
Bloete servietter for sketsj-uken "Guru".  Ergo det alle tidens ake-
neser opplever.  Ti kalte i Narvik.  Eg gav giret slag som kringla
vende til leggspark.  Raatt ein attmed blom Sterilan gjekk.  Kanin-
genene som var i Ante N.: Vann-etikk er oekende i regress.  Duer inne-
baerer skit i luken --- dobbelt, ingenlunde enkel, tror du.  John
robbet hvilestedet.  Problemet med kameratskapet blir for stort:
Vinduer greier ikke vin.

Naa rallet Arild igjen.  Generer moro-P-pillene Dem, Edna Boseng?
Ene og alene pale ran melde vil.  De vil sogar be i Dunderkirken!  
"Harpun?  De tuller, mann!"  Ensomt ryktes alt et allmektig dyr som
hvalen sender i mottagerens lange iskrem.  Men det oeverste Getsemane
sertifiserer bedre enn det ord en bra, kald, ren demon arkivert i
kald is kan tale.  "Nesle, pent?!!?"  Prest er Erik "Kebab" Ledal i
nesten grevens tid.  I gresk jul este deretter mage, taa, legger
under paatrykk.  Paakjoer saa stygge damer!  Aveny tre, fil ett, og...
auda!  Snu sengen; er erogen naa.  Brukbart ender en dag.  Ba De Andenes
terminere ruten?  Aa, doer stokken naa, Rikke?  Tiltaket vaart, dere!
Tegge skal like fire Rikke-kopier --- kult!  Det er in at tenaaringenes
te koker i saape.  Ali ga Tor en sur sko.  Gi bra sil til late Rikke
for brenning.  "Bloete, ser vi!", etterforsket sju kenguruer gode.
Tallet i den saken eser opp.  Le vertikalt, Einar Vik!  Egg avgir et
slags omkringlavende tillegg.  Spar kr aatte i natt med blomster i lang
jekk.  Kan ingen enes om varianten?  Vannet, ikke-roekende ire-gress.
Du er inne, barerer ski til uken.  Dobbel ting en Lunde enkelt ror, du!
John! Rob! Beth!  Vi leste det!  Problemet med kam er at skapet blir for 
stort.  Vin!  Du er grei, Erik!   -Kevin.
							(C) Ulf Lunde 1992

No, I shall stop pulling your leg!  I am of course just kidding --- the
above makes about as much sense in Norwegian as it does in English or
any other language.  But it does look impressive, doesn't it?  :-)
It sure gave us a few good laughs while reciting it (from memory)!

What I really would like to know is what to call such sentences.
I haven't found any good name for it.   I am wondering if anyone out there
knows what they are called, if anything?  If we need to coin a name,
do you have any good suggestions?   I'd prefer a single, short, great-
sounding word like "palindrom" or "fisk".  Please post your suggestions.

In the rest of this posting I'll just call them "******"s.

Does anyone have any good ******s that can be read in two different
languages without rearranging anything but the punctuation and spacing?
Or ******s that at the same time are palindromes?  Or two ******s that
are anagrams of each other?  Or for the really advanced: A ******, one
of whose meanings is a pangram?

Either I entered this thread too late, or the thread was dropped too
early.  Perhaps it ought to be moved to rec.puzzles.crosswords since
the traffic there is so sparse?

What is the highest number of meanings one ****** can take on?

Ulf Lunde