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Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with fiv
by AlexMuir 4y ago
Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row.
The answer was as follows:
The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog and and, and and and Partridge.
- coreyp_1 4y agoI heard it with "Fish and Chips".
- Affric 4y agoCuriously, if someone wanted to put that on a sign suddenly you can take the story to as many "and"s as one might want... So, the the trick is using it as a conjunction and a noun.
- justinpombrio 4y agoHere's 21 in a row, by Martin Gardner: Wouldn’t the sentence ‘I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign’ have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
- CaptainNegative 4y agoCan't one just keep recursing further? Only with very careful intonation and appropriate pauses after a comma can someone read Gardner's above sentence aloud such that a listener can fully grok the connection between "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and". (sentence due to Python 3).
- stevage 4y agoI mean, if you're allowing that, what's wrong with: > You should have seen this sign, it had 1000 ands in a row, and there was too much space between and and and and and and and and and ...
- abelaer 4y agoIf you want to draw the graph where nodes are words from your comment, and two nodes are connected when they contain the same letters, you would have to draw edges between and and and, and and and and, and ... Explodes even faster.
- hackernewds 4y agoThis one does not follow as well
- onionisafruit 4y agoWhy did that lead to detention?
- splatzone 4y agoI could be wrong, but I think it was a task the teacher set during detention
- elliekelly 4y agoI would love to know what other tasks Mr B Swales had in his detention assignment rotation!
- chatmasta 4y agoIt seems like cheating to omit the double quotes around the literal instances of “and” while still including them around “Dog and Partridge.”
- astrobe_ 4y agoThey said grammatically correct, not typographically correct ;-)
- paconbork 4y agoIt's easy enough to use a single "and" in a sentence, but "and and" and "and and and" and so on are more difficult
- hoosieree 4y agoClearly you've never taught intro boolean logic. Try saying "a Nand and an And" in a way that your students can understand you.
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- Moru 4y agoSwedish sort of joke-sentence you get to learn in school: "Far, får får får?" "Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm." English would be: "Father, does sheep get sheep?" "No, sheep does not get sheep, sheep gets lambs." No, google translate does not make it unscathed through that sentence :-)
- Kosirich 4y agoFor doing that on hard/impossible setting, try doing it in Danish as a foreigner. Every person in Denmark I discussed language with, at one point gives this example.
- dredmorbius 4y agoAaron earned an iron urn.
- albrewer 4y agoThis really only gets people with a certain accent though.
- dredmorbius 4y agohttps://yewtu.be/watch?v=Oj7a-p4psRA https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Oj7a-p4psRA
- DonHopkins 4y agoThe The or Adam and the Ants or Bananarama? I always wanted to start a Yello cover band called Purple, just to perform a song called "Oh No!" Mmmmm, Ugly... More ugly... Such a bad time... A really bad time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g
- atxbcp 4y agoA russian equivalent based on the fact that foreign words aren't declined: Человек человеку волк, а зомби зомби зомби
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- IIAOPSW 4y ago'''Between (("Dog" and "and") and ("and" and "partridge"))''' for those of you trying to parse along at home.
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- nicooo 4y agoMy homework was to write a sentence with 5 ands in a row, so I wrote "and and and and and."
- busterroni 4y ago> "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...