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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
1·21 hours agoNo problems there. You can substitute other words to confirm that the sentence makes sense.
Note that that sentence that had had, had words other than had and that had had an impact.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
1·1 day agoWell, given that there isn’t a similar sentence that makes sense (without inserting words). Yes.
I mean, I appreciate that it’s a bit of linguistic fun dreamt up by Dmitri Borgmann. But it’s flawed. It needs an additional (non-buffalo) word to make proper sense.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
1·1 day agoWithout an additional word between words 2 and 3, this is just a list. That’s why it makes no sense.
You only think it makes sense because you are adding in words subconsciously.
Still waiting for an example that actually works.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
1·1 day agoQuaterback Twins Greenbay Packers draft, play Detroit Lions.
Nope. Still missing a word.
If the sentence was technically grammatically correct then a direct substitution of all 8 words (without adding more) should make sense.
I’ve already provided a counter example where it doesn’t make sense. I’ll drop my argument if you can find one that does.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
1·1 day agoAre you saying the following sentence is perfectly fine English?
Quaterback Love Greenbay Packers drafted, played Detroit Lions.
No. It’s missing at least one word.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
1·2 days agoYou’ve had to add “The” to make it make sense.
“Quaterback Packers drafted” doesn’t make sense.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivalsEnglish
61·2 days agoiOS uses freeBSD and OpenBSD components. Isn’t that the same thing?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
11·2 days agoQuaterback Love [that] Greenbay Packers drafted, played Detroit Lions.
Some sentences can drop the relative pronouns and still make sense. This isn’t one of them.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
11·2 days agoI think you proved my point. You needed to add the word “which”. A pause makes the first part sound like a list.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
22·2 days agoWashington cats [missing] florida rats chase, annoy Vegas whores.
There needs to be a which, that, who or something in that missing space for a proper sentence structure.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
181·3 days agoSpoken, not written:-
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?
45·3 days agoBuffalo buffalo WHICH Buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo Buffalo
It annoys me that the quoted sentence misses out essential words.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts ArgueEnglish
7·3 days agoThe advantage of datacenters in space is that the peasants can’t break in and sabotage your equipment.
If that’s your criteria, put servers in containers and sink them in the ocean. Bonus, no cooling problems.
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memes@lemmy.world•How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?
3·6 days agoI was about to post an erm ackshually but I checked my facts.
An urban myth holds the name “World Series” came from a putative sponsorship by the New York World newspaper. The earliest such claim found by Snopes was made in 1991
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memes@lemmy.world•How do China and India never qualify for the World Cup?
21·6 days agoOr maybe something interesting happens in the last 10mims
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Technology@lemmy.world•‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical MediaEnglish
101·8 days agoWhy do people think that gta6 content will be stored locally?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How much money have you lost while gambling in one day?
1·9 days agoThis is the only way to beat the house.
How corn syrup took over America