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LEAST STALE TEALS TALES LETS A TESLA STEAL SLATE STELA!
What a versatile set of letters! There's yet another anagram of AESLT that a sufficiently clever person could use:
TAEL: a unit of weight used in east Asia, approximately equal to 1.3 ounces; plural TAELS
(and if you cite a lot of references but there are too many authors to include the complete listing on any of them, you should include a bunch of et als.)
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> 2) TALES LETS
grammatically incorrect
lol! good to see you on such fong form! rulezzzzz?!?!
and anyway, it's surely only incorrect if you are attempting to read it as a past tense - journalese often uses such constructions as a kind of 'still ongoing' tense. But whadoicare really... ;)
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a kind of 'still ongoing' tense
Does the "'still ongoing' tense" permit use of third person singular verbs with plural subjects?
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nobut neither did my construction I reckon - the third person singular is referring to the (possibly) singular 'least' of the plural stories about ducks, not the whole plural collection :0~
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s - t - r - e - t - c - h
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Wull, I parsed LEAST STALE TEALS TALES as being those tales about teals that were least stale.
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Yup. But did you say it ten times fast?
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But did you say it ten times fast?
According to one arcane metaphysical source, if you do, you will turn into a duck.
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>you will turn into a duck
but beware, for if you float you will be recognized for the witch that you were.
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Recently, the machinery used to work animal pelts into fine fur garments was fitted with a new form of fastener. A form of heavy-duty stapler, the new fastener is distinctive in appearance, as it is enclosed in a lightly-hued plastic cover. The color-coded covers are not merely decorative, however, since the tint of a cover signifies the gauge of the enclosed fastener … the lighter the color, the larger the gauge. Furriers have been most pleased with the result, and have successfully used the machines to form high-quality skins into intricate designs. The industry news magazine highlighted this new tool just last week:
Palest Pastel Staple Pleats ‘A’ Pelts
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