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I don't know why I found this so funny, but it gave me a real laugh this evening.

• thaumasiotes 4y ago
  The Language Instinct, in one section, gives some examples of ways in which an English sentence can be ungrammatical that people nevertheless rarely think of when they think about grammatical mistakes. One of my favorites was "This sentence has cabbage six words". It's accurate! It's... almost well-formed! You have to fix "This sentence has six words" somehow, right?
  • teddyh 4y ago
    This sentence has cabbage and seven words.
  • mellavora 4y ago
    > This is something up with which we will not put! to quote the great Churchill, when someone suggested that one should not end a sentence with a preposition.
    • teddyh 4y ago
      Probably not Churchill: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Disputed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Disputed