Sentence Exercise

xoxoxoBruce • Jun 27, 2009 2:33 am
This sentence was written by someone with too much time on their hands.

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 • Jun 27, 2009 2:44 am
Neurotic's Creed:
If it is to be, it is up to me.


Ten word sentence made entirely of two letter words.
Clodfobble • Jun 27, 2009 10:17 am
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting[COLOR="Red"];[/COLOR] nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality[COLOR="red"],[/COLOR] counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness[COLOR="red"].[/COLOR]


Huh. It does actually diagram grammatically after all.
Spexxvet • Jun 27, 2009 10:22 am
I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness


Clodfobble;578096 wrote:
Huh. It does actually diagram grammatically after all.


Isn't illegibly an adverb, which means it has to modify perplexing, rather than handwriting?
Clodfobble • Jun 27, 2009 10:27 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 • Jun 27, 2009 11:38 am
True - adverbs can also modify modifiers.
BigV • Jun 27, 2009 12:22 pm
This topic just discussed on Car Talk.

Woot!
BigV • Jul 21, 2009 3:06 pm
What is special about this sentence exercise?

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


Hint:
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read it aloud.[/COLOR]
glatt • Jul 21, 2009 3:22 pm
What kind of fuzzy furriner are you to say "zed" instead of "zee?"
Shawnee123 • Jul 21, 2009 3:29 pm
Zed's dead.
SteveDallas • Jul 21, 2009 3:44 pm
Zed? Wasn't he the general in Superman II?
Shawnee123 • Jul 21, 2009 3:58 pm
No, he was the "soon to be in agonizing pain rapist" in Pulp Fiction.
Queen of the Ryche • Jul 21, 2009 4:11 pm
I want a pot.
Clodfobble • Jul 21, 2009 5:45 pm
SteveDallas wrote:
Zed? Wasn't he the general in Superman II?
Flint • Jul 21, 2009 5:47 pm
Zod verus Zardoz
SteveDallas • Jul 21, 2009 6:01 pm
Never mind, I was probably thinking of Zadok.
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Flint • Jul 21, 2009 6:27 pm
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xoxoxoBruce • Jul 22, 2009 3:19 am
No, they are both aliens. :haha:
Crimson Ghost • Jul 22, 2009 3:35 am
Shawnee123;582942 wrote:
Zed's dead.


Did you get the pancakes, the blueberry pancakes?
Shawnee123 • Jul 22, 2009 8:26 am
Whose motorcycle?

It's not a motorcycle baby, it's a chopper.

Whose chopper?

:)
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