Dec 19
The following is a grammatically correct English sentence:
It means, “
For some reason, the spell-check on Micro$oft Word turned that whole sentence red. Go figure.
The following is a grammatically correct English sentence:
It means, “
For some reason, the spell-check on Micro$oft Word turned that whole sentence red. Go figure.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Maybe “Word” was also buffaloed. (By the way, I can’t get that beautiful fox out of my mind!)
December 20th, 2007 at 4:30 am
I had to read that sentence about a dozen times.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:26 am
montucky: I don’t think the software designers could possibly have thought ahead to a sentence like that one. And the fox: I know what you mean. I only wish I had gotten a few more pics.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Lis: That’s one less time than me. Congratulations!
December 24th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Are you familiar with this puzzle:
Joe had had had Tom had had had had had had had had the teacher’s approval
You’re supposed to make that into a valid English sentence just by punctuating it. It can be done, but you have to use quotes, which is kind of cheating if you ask me.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:15 am
That that that that that that that is insane. Do you know the answer? Because I just spent ten minutes on it, and I give up.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Oh, this is fun!
Your last comment reminded me that when I was in school, my teacher showed us a gramatically correct sentence similar to that one. It went something like:
That that that that boy wrote was spelled incorrectly.
Of course I got kicked out of class for asking her if she was back on the crack, who knew she was right?! :p
December 26th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Now, yours I can decipher, though, like Diesel’s, using quotation marks makes it a lot easier.
Your question implied that your teacher was once on the crack and had fallen off the wagon; hence your removal from class?
December 26th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Heh, well you know, inner-city teachers and all that, we all smoked crack together at some point.
(OK, not really, I grew up in Wyoming haha.)