The landlord of a pub called The Pig And Whistle asked a sign writer to make a new sign. When he saw it he thought that the words were too close together, so he said to the sign writer “I want more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle”.
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Inspired by the story, another landlord decides to name their pub "Pig and And and And and Whistle." Lo and behold, the sign was cramped... Ther needed more space between Pig and and and and and And and And and and and and and And and And and and and and and Whistle.
You shut your whore mouth.
Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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It annoys me so much when I feel I need to write a sentence like that that I go to great lengths to restructure sentences to avoid it.
...fuck
Your grammar and sanity are better for it. Actually, most cases I'm which a double that is used you can probably get away with a single that.
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Live footage of me reviewing a report that has a repeated word series like this:
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You can create a sentence with an infinite number of "police"
Who polices the Police?
Police Police police Police.
Who polices the Police Police?
Police Police Police police Police Police.
And so on...
* the sound of buffalos approaching *
Plot twist: There is no police police. ACAB
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“That that” can and probably should be replaced with “that which” in almost every instance it is used.
Edit: or “when that”
Many times you don’t need the first “that” at all.
Did you know that I play soccer?
Vs
Did you know I play soccer?
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I'm surprised that that is your opinion.
Put that in your thatwhich and eat it ;).
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had;" "had had" had had a greater effect on the teacher.
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Maybe I'm just grouchy today but how in the world does a word coming up twice in a row translate to a language being flawed? That seems like calling spelling "flawed" because letters come up twice in a row in a word.
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About the sign "Alpha and Bravo", the spaces between Alpha and and and and and Bravo are too large.
In German the following is a completely valid sentence:
Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.
Which translates to when flies fly behind flies, then flies follow flies. The same works for seals:
Wenn hinter Robben Robben Robben, robben Robben Robben nach.
Some Hungarian prefixes can be piled on without limit, while still creating meaning.
The word "úszni" means "to swim".
Úsztatni - to make someone or someone swim
Úsztattatni - to make someone make someone swim
Úsztattattattattattattattattattni - to make someone make someone make someone ... make someone swim
Can be done with any verb, and maybe some other suffixes as well.
Strangely enough, this works in Finnish too:
Uida - to swim
Uittaa - to make someone or something swim
Uitattaa - to make someone make someone swim
Uitattattattattattattattattattaa - to make someone make someone make someone … make someone swim
It's almost as if they are related languages or something.
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English has Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
I don't know what it means but I've been told it is indeed a full sentence.
Bison from Buffalo, New York bully bison from Buffalo, New York who bully other bisons.
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Sometimes we have a do do problem, too. I do do that, anyway.
Yes its called diarrhoea
I don't get it after the 2nd had, any chance someone else understands?
It needs a comma.
All the good faith I had had, had had no effect.
Essentially "all the food faith I previously had, didn't have any effect".
Good God English is an awful language.
I'm pretty sure it is grammatically correct with no comma. The version you provided is a comma splice.
To slightly change the tense, All the good faith that I had had no effect is grammatically correct with no comma, so the gerund form should also not need a comma.
Perhaps. Regardless it's outlandish abuse of the tongue IMO and definitely would benefit from the comma because nobody's going to just bang out 4 had's in a row in speech without a pause without a justifiable slap across the chops and possibly a challenge to a duel.
"But your honour, he said 'had' four times on the trot without pause"
"Case dismissed"
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"That that" spoken are two different sounding words so it makes sense. When it goes from verbal to written and I see it, I will almost always try to rephrase things to avoid that combo. It just jumps out as totally wrong.
are they? I just said "I didn't know that that was how it is" out loud and both thats sound the same
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I always read "read" as "read" but now everything's different.
It is read like lead, not read like lead.
Edit: dammit, someone beat me to it.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!
I still feel like the nouns are in the wrong place when I read this.
I'm reading it as "New York cows new York cows bully bully New York cows"
When I want it to read "New York cows bully new York cows" which would be "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" which isn't enough buffalo.
I have to inset my own "that" to be able to get my head around "Buffalo buffalo (that) Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
dass das das das dass da ersetzen kann ist falsch
translation: that "das" can replace "dass" there is wrong.
same shit different barbarians
I remember one time at r/peloton one of those tribalistic mildly-xenophobic nutcases told me, after sharing an article in spanish which had some ambiguous word, something to the effect that "spanish is the most confusing language in the world".
Yes, that genius told that. In english.
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English has its flaws, but I don't agree that that is one of them.
english is dumb. why do we say "hands," but we don't say "foots"? why does "goose" become "geese," but "moose" doesn't become "meese"? why is "led" the past tense of "lead," but "red" is not the past tense of "read"? why don't "good" and "food" rhyme? LIGHT becomes LIT, fight becomes FOUGHT. peek becomes peeked, seek becomes SOUGHT
i could do this all day, but i willn't
English is three other languages in a trench coat
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Many of the at least 400 words that are technically both nouns and verbs depending on usage can form sentences of just repeating the word.
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Echoes echoes echoes Echoes' echoes.
Mrs Missus misses misses' Missus.
Fly flies fly.
Tests "tests" tests tests Tests' test.
Reasons reason reasons.
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