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xoxoxoBruce 06-27-2009 01:33 AM
Sentence Exercise
 
This sentence was written by someone with too much time on their hands.

Quote:
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness


First word, one letter.
Second word, two letters.
Third word, three letters.
etc.

BigV 06-27-2009 01:44 AM
Neurotic's Creed:
Quote:
If it is to be, it is up to me.
Ten word sentence made entirely of two letter words.

Clodfobble 06-27-2009 09:17 AM
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I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness.
Huh. It does actually diagram grammatically after all.

Spexxvet 06-27-2009 09:22 AM
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I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 578096)
Huh. It does actually diagram grammatically after all.
Isn't illegibly an adverb, which means it has to modify perplexing, rather than handwriting?

Clodfobble 06-27-2009 09:27 AM
Yes, but it's not totally out of line to use illegibly like that. Something could be "illegibly huge" or "illegibly ugly." Awkward, but not strictly incorrect.

Beestie 06-27-2009 10:38 AM
True - adverbs can also modify modifiers.

BigV 06-27-2009 11:22 AM
This topic just discussed on Car Talk.

Woot!

BigV 07-21-2009 02:06 PM
What is special about this sentence exercise?

Quote:
Hey be seedy, eh, effigy, hate shy jakey yellow man; oh, peek, you're rusty, you've double, you ex-wise head.
Hint:

read it aloud.

glatt 07-21-2009 02:22 PM
What kind of fuzzy furriner are you to say "zed" instead of "zee?"

Shawnee123 07-21-2009 02:29 PM
Zed's dead.

SteveDallas 07-21-2009 02:44 PM
Zed? Wasn't he the general in Superman II?

Shawnee123 07-21-2009 02:58 PM
No, he was the "soon to be in agonizing pain rapist" in Pulp Fiction.

Queen of the Ryche 07-21-2009 03:11 PM
I want a pot.

Clodfobble 07-21-2009 04:45 PM
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Zed? Wasn't he the general in Superman II?

Flint 07-21-2009 04:47 PM
Zod verus Zardoz


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