|
|
Joined: Jun 2000
Posts: 724
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jun 2000
Posts: 724 |
>..I still remember from my schooldays a sentence composed of a word used ten
>times in succession ..
Paul: I think it is one of those puzzles that one knows if one knows it (what is happening to me - Deolali?) - but I think the sentence will be of a word that can be a noun - subject and object, verb, adverb and adjective. Maybe the answer is in finding out which word can be all the parts of the speech.
Meta: "Post posters' posts, a poster posts posts, post posting posts".
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 31
newbie
|
|
newbie
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 31 |
I agree. And the convergence of art and science is the new metaphysics.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
disorienteering be akin to lying on the couch with one's eyes closed?
That conjures up a lovely vision - and I had thought it meant be unkind about practitioners of this noble hunt! Welcome, oh rastellfarian one. (Warning, everyone, it's another bicycle...)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
All right, what's a rastellfarian?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 460
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 460 |
Goodness, I waited a couple of days and already the thread has lost its currency! So here's the sentence with the same eleven words in succession:
If only she, who had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,027
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,027 |
how easily prejudices can evolve Fortunately  ! A prejudice that has evolved is no longer a prejudice but tends to mutate into an accepted truth..
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 29
newbie
|
|
OP
newbie
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 29 |
Retract that statement immediately, wsieber! I won't have it! I'm putting my hands over my ears now and singing real loud...LA LALA LALA LA LALA.... :)
My "had" riddle supposes two people, one named "Had" (an uncommon but known first name), the other named "Had-Had" (a stretch), and goes like this:
had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had would have recieved a higher mark.
The problem is to insert punctuation which would make this a real sentence.
Prejudice evolving into accepted truths? I won't have it! Makes me feel like I should take up arms.
MM
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409 |
In reply to:
A prejudice that has evolved is no longer a prejudice but tends to mutate into an accepted truth..
¡¿Qué?! Please clarify this satement, wsieber. I am certain you did not mean it to be so, but it reminds me very much of the statement variously attributed to Göbbels or to his boss, "tell a big enough lie often enough, and most people will believe it."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,027
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,027 |
Retract that statement Ok, it seems I threw the cat into the goldfish pond  . The combination of prejudice with evolve provoked me to that statement. Prejudices, I think, are characterized by the very fact that they don't evolve but stay fixed in the face of evidence. Uncomfortable discoveries, on the other hand are often for a long time discredited as "prejudices" - example? The BSE story.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 29
newbie
|
|
OP
newbie
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 29 |
Evolving prejudices is kind of an odd image. I suppose I meant the way prejudices can begin as a fleeting perception, a nuance, and before you know it they've become an idea, one that I am willing to defend or make judgements about when, in fact, I know next to nothing about the facts. Common, common.
Of images, the cat in the goldfish pond is hilarious! I mean, poor kitty, but what a great saying!
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,915
Posts229,892
Members9,197
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
356
guests, and
0
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
