godisnowhere and stuff like it

[Iceforge]

No, this has nothing to do with religion, if anyone got that impression from the title.

In the games section, there was someone who asked for creepy/eerie things to use in a horror game, and there was posted several links in response, and one of them used the "godisnowhere" as part of a eerie/creepy event.

The cool thing about godisnowhere is the ability of the string of letters to be divided into two very different sentences:
God is no where
God is now here

Now, I am interested in finding more such curiosities in the language, but alas, my searches on google has yielded no results; just religious webpages turn up, given the example I have, that might have been expected.

It most likely has some name when you can do this with a string of letters, but alas once again, that word is unknown to me.

If anyone knows that it is called or got other cool examples, please don't hesistate to respond :)

[KuReshtin]

Is this like the website called www.therapists.org which can be read in two different ways, the correct one being as a single word, and not as two words.

[Mr. Moon]

Hehehehe. "Therapists" has always made me giggle immaturely as a word.

I'm having trouble loading the page though. :smallconfused:

[Elder Tsofu]

... I read it as "godis nowhere", which would be "candy nowhere" if the first word is translated...

[Partof1]

... I read it as "godis nowhere", which would be "candy nowhere" if the first word is translated...

Now that is a different interpretation :smalltongue:

[The Rose Dragon]

"Sean Connery" on Saturday Night Live Celebrity Jeopardy! was a master of this.

[Mauve Shirt]

I at first read "godi snow here", which made no sense. :smalltongue:

[TSGames]

"Sean Connery" on Saturday Night Live Celebrity Jeopardy! was a master of this.
"I'll take famous tities for 400!" (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31133142)

[Rowsen]

... I read it as "godis nowhere", which would be "candy nowhere" if the first word is translated...

So God is candy? I knew it!

[Aron Times]

{Scrubbed}

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

"I'll take famous tities for 400!" (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31133142)

Only works within US.

[Zevox]

God is no where
Correction: "nowhere" is one word, not two.

Zevox

[Tirian]

Shark bites puzzle experts

[Serpentine]

Try looking up something along the lines of "why punctuation is important". Can't remember the big famous example, but there's some good ones.

One is the wombat one which, aside from partially being the title of a book (Eats, Shoots and Leaves), was also rumoured to have been a typo on a lolly we have in Australia that has little facts on the wrappers: "Eats, roots and leaves."

edit: Also, That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

[Raistlin1040]

Let's eat Grandma.
Let's eat, Grandma.
Punctuation saves lives.

[Knaight]

The horse example is already here. Then there is:

A woman without her man is nothing.
A woman, without her Man is nothing.

for a double dose of sexism, in both directions.

[Serpentine]

Better is "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

[Amiel]

Go Dis nowhere

Dis refers to the underworld; it's implying that there is no existence but hell.

[Serpentine]

Or Disposition, a playgrounder.

"Go, Dis!" "No. ...Where?"

[Iceforge]

Is this like the website called www.therapists.org which can be read in two different ways, the correct one being as a single word, and not as two words.

Well, there are some websites which have some unfortunate names for sure.

Maybe I should have been fair and shared some of those I knew myself (websites) from the start, but they didn't match up quite as well as the Godisnowhere example.

Nice website names:

The Therapist Finder:
Therapistfinder.com (For all your sexual predator seeking needs)

Pen Island:
penisland.net (Is a lot smaller than it looks on the map)

Who Represents:
whorepresents.com (and you wondered what to give your husband for Christmas?)

Kids Exchange
Kidsexchange.net (why settle for a boy/girl, when you really want a girl/boy?)
(Originally Experts Exchange, but that website didnt seem to exist anymore, but is even more disturbing with kids)

The Speed of Art:
Speedofart.com (For letting out bodily gasses through swim briefs)



Source: QI (Quite Interesting), a very entertaining British Television show



Correction: "nowhere" is one word, not two.

Zevox

I bloody knew it!!!

But when I did search for it on the internet, besides the very religiously toned websites, the few that dealt with it being readable two ways, all spelled it out "no where" instead of "nowhere", which made my doubt my way of spelling it.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust random search results from google?

[Amiel]

godisnowhere

Also becomes I won dogs here

[KuReshtin]

So God is candy? I knew it!

No. 'Godis' is candy.


Well, there are some websites which have some unfortunate names for sure.

Maybe I should have been fair and shared some of those I knew myself (websites) from the start, but they didn't match up quite as well as the Godisnowhere example.

Nice website names:

The Therapist Finder:
Therapistfinder.com (For all your sexual predator seeking needs)

Pen Island:
penisland.net (Is a lot smaller than it looks on the map)

Who Represents:
whorepresents.com (and you wondered what to give your husband for Christmas?)

Kids Exchange
Kidsexchange.net (why settle for a boy/girl, when you really want a girl/boy?)
(Originally Experts Exchange, but that website didnt seem to exist anymore, but is even more disturbing with kids)

The Speed of Art:
Speedofart.com (For letting out bodily gasses through swim briefs)


That's the one I was looking for. I couldn't remember the correct names off the top of my head, and it was almost bedtime, so I couldn't be bothered to go look for it. :smallbiggrin:



Source: QI (Quite Interesting), a very entertaining British Television show


QI is very much linked to and often mentioned around these parts. :smallwink:

[Eldan]

In line with those, I once saw a few more URLs in an article. The only one I can remember right now was Gendersexchange.

[Tirian]

manslaughter

[Prime32]

One from Eats, Shoots and Leaves:

"Execution of prisoner impossible to be sent to Siberia"
"Execution of prisoner, impossible to be sent to Siberia"
"Execution of prisoner impossible, to be sent to Siberia"

[Zexion]

Well, Runescape can be read as Run Escape. This is not a coincidence. :smalltongue:

[Morph Bark]

Well, Runescape can be read as Run Escape. This is not a coincidence. :smalltongue:

I actually used to think that that was it's name for years, until a friend's brother pronounced it differently. Still glad I quit that though.


One from Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Hey, I remember that panda joke!

[Zanaril]

There's a whole Tv Tropes page.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheProblemWithPenIsland

[Pinnacle]

Hey, I remember that panda joke!

I saw it printed (without credit) in a little newspaper once.
You know how the punchline is the incorrect punctuation that makes the sentence read wrong? They printed it with correct punctuation. Made no sense. :smallfurious:

[Marnath]

Better is "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Thats what the second one says, but explaining it ruins the point of this language exercise. :smalltongue:

[Thajocoth]

I remember when Experts Exchange added a hyphen into their url, abandoning their old one.

[Asthix]

Gonna go to an old Simpsons fave:

Free? No. Money down!

[musicalbookworm]

I've got a couple:

momshoe- mom shoe, or Mom's hoe?

sapphiresandcastles- sapphire sand castles or sapphires and castles

Overcoming Faith- faith that overcomes or learning to overcome faith?

Also, godisnowhere could be "god, I snow here" (it makes sense if you're a weather mage...)

[Teddy]

sapphiresandcastles- sapphire sand castles or sapphires and castles

Could also be "Sapp hire sand castles". I guess Sapp isn't the greatest intellect to be found... :smallwink:

[Serpentine]

Thats what the second one says, but explaining it ruins the point of this language exercise. :smalltongue:Your punctuation was inadequate :smallcool:

[Krade]

edit: Also, That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

I always liked that one. It was featured in the short story: Flowers for Algernon. When we read it in my 8th grade reading class the teacher put that up on the board before we got to that part in the story and told us to punctuate. No one figured it out, by the way.

[Amiel]

aniceperson

A Nice Person
An Ice Person


shipsinking

Ship Sinking
Ship Sin King
Ships in King
Ships Inking

[Maximum Zersk]

Ah, the old Problem with Penisland. :smalltongue:

I think I may be able to find a few. Wait a sec.

[Dispozition]

Or Disposition, a playgrounder.

"Go, Dis!" "No. ...Where?"

Dispozition, but aside from that, sure why not.

Wait, where?

[Lolzords]

There used to be a website called penisland which was a pen shop called pen island, but now it's a porn site, which kind of sucks.

[Klose_the_Sith]

There used to be a website called penisland which was a pen shop called pen island, but now it's a porn site, which kind of sucks.

You have a strange definition of porn, my friend ... (http://www.penisland.net/index.html)

[Dispozition]

There used to be a website called penisland which was a pen shop called pen island, but now it's a porn site, which kind of sucks.

No, penisland.net is a pen website, .com is a porn site.

[PirateMonk]

Try looking up something along the lines of "why punctuation is important". Can't remember the big famous example, but there's some good ones.

I remember seeing the following pair of letters somewhere on this forum. Apparently it won some magazine contest.


Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are kind, thoughtful, caring. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You've ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I feel nothing when we're apart. I can finally be happy-- will you let me be yours?

Harriet


Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are kind, thoughtful, caring people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You've ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I feel nothing. When we're apart, I can finally be happy. Will you let me be?

Yours,
Harriet