In case you were unaware, another really amazing example of overlapping meainings is in "normal" DNA code, where genes can overlap themselves. Because a stop c

In case you were unaware, another really amazing example of overlapping meainings is in "normal" DNA code, where genes can overlap themselves. Because a stop codon would kill transcription, these are either on alternate reading frames (i.e. the codons begin on a different one of the three possibilities) or on the antisense side of the gene (the opposite base pairs from those corresponding to the original gene). It blows my mind that such an incredible amount of stuff could go wrong if there is just a single mutation, and that such an incredibly delicate system arose through evolution and survived billions of years of natural selection.