So, many of you pointed out that in the first two minutes, I claim that "this video only involves the spelling of words, and has nothing to do with the phonetics of a word.", and then contradict that by saying "Let's analyze how NATHAN is pronounced." In retrospect, I can see how that is very confusing. I should've worded this in a more mathematically rigorous way. What I meant was, we're just looking at a sequence of discrete elements, some of which have the same value, and some of which have different values. What I wanted to do in this video was, figure out what permutations of that original sequence can we arrive at by only applying reversals to substrings of that sequence. For sequences that have a structure like "NATHAN", (where the 1st and 6th elements have an equal value, and so do the 2nd and 5th elements), which reversals will lead the sequence to appear identical? The answer is, reversing the substring from x_1 to x_6, and then reversing the substring from x_3 to x_4, will keep this sequence identical. In the video, the only reason I brought up how the "TH" phoneme is pronounced was to slowly introduce you to a reason for why you might want to reverse a smaller substring. But actually, the pronunciation is actually irrelevant: we can choose any substring to reverse that we want. You can see this later when I start "clumping" more arbitrary chunks of letters, like the "TAL" in stalepetals. (Whenever I say "substring", I mean a consecutive subsequence of the original sequence.) If we were to boil the actual problem down to its mathematical roots, the English language itself is actually completely unrelated to the raw mechanics of the problem I'm trying to describe. I only used English words as a sort of "proxy" to make the puzzle more digestible and "fun", (like the Oompa Loompa Shampoo thing), but that clearly backfired. If I were to record this video again, I now know to take a more straightforward approach: describe the problem in a mathematically unambiguous way, so the viewers aren't left with a different version of the problem in their head than the problem I had in my head. Clarity over hand-wavy statements. I'll try to be clearer next time! For a more in-depth explanation of what I mean, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5LLabWD10U

This would be a pretty cool game, where you are presented with a word and must make it as palindromic as possible.

Cary: "we don't care about phonetic palindromes" Cary literally seconds later: "if you think of the phoneme, it's a palindrome!"

As a Nathan. I can confirm my name is a palindrome in spirit.

Fun fact about the Oreo one: In Japanese, Oreo really is a palindrome! It's spelled オレオ, which is the same backwards or forwards.

My personal favourite: "rats live on no evil star" Even the spaces stay in the same place after reversing!

cary I hope you know that I almost started crying laughing when you zoomed in on "I PISS I MISS" with the pee sounds in the background

“Stressed Desserts” Cake has joined the game.

Friend: “Hey Nathan, is that a sunburn?” Nathan: “Nah, tan.”

I would have absolutly sat through 20 more minutes of watching you do this palindrome game

"Nobody wants to sit through over 20 minutes of talking about palindromes." Guess my name's nobody then

oompaloompashampoo is an official letter in my book.

One of my friend's name is Hannah and I've never thought of it as a palindrome until you showed me! What can't you do? The power of palindromes will overcome humanity (i live in California so I'm happy to see my state being used :D) It's pretty cool how "Eleven plus two" is "One plus twelve" and they're both 13 and they make up of 13 letters!

Says he’s only focusing on spelling. Alters program to interpret letter combinations representing single phonemes as single letters. HMMMMMMMMM

As a kid, I couldn't understand how racecar was a palindrome for a long time. There were two reasons: -I thought it was "race car" -I considered a space a letter (because of how keyboards work, because spaces were not given special treatment in school, and because letters, numbers, spaces, etc are all bundled into "characters" in common computer programs) so the reverse of "race car" was "rac ecar", which was not the same.

I made a palindrome about a Devil Fruit encyclopedia (from One Piece). When someone asks which one you're currently at, you could say: I'm on "Uzu Uzu no Mi". (Oto Oto no Mi also works)

Put this in the Palindrome explorer: (g(o(h(a(n(g(a(s(a(l(a(m(ii)m)a)l)a)s)a)g)n)a)h)o)g), and turn 2.5D all the way up. (Also, did you know a emordnilap is a thing? It's when you switch a word around, and it still has a meaning. For example: bat and tab. Tab is bat backwards, but they both have a meaning. So, palindrome is an emordnilap. Cool.)

This would be a fun puzzle game. It gives you a word and you have to get it to a certain mobility count or mobility distance.

We’re all learning new facts about our own names to use one day.

I can already predict the comments complaining about the lack of a KH pun. So i'll give you one. Khut the Huck up.