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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The landlord of a pub called The Pig And Whistle asked a sign writer to make a new sign. When he saw it he thought that the words were too close together so he said to the sign writer “I want more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle”.

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    • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Inspired by the story, another landlord decides to name their pub “Pig and And and And and Whistle.” Lo and behold, the sign was cramped… Ther needed more space between Pig and and and and and And and And and and and and and And and And and and and and and Whistle.

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You shut your whore mouth.

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you or they added two extra ands, because the pub isn’t “Pig And And Whistle.”

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      • Baleine@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Space between pig and and, and space between and and whistle

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      • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, it’s referring to the first space by grouping the first and second words, “Pig” and “And,” and then referring to the second space by grouping the second and third words, “And” and “Whistle.”

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      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Pig and Whistle” is what they’re asking for.

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      • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        More space between pig and and as well as between and and whistle.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Live footage of me reviewing a report that has a repeated word series like this:

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I showed my teacher a flork and now she loves them

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      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hahaha holy shit, some of them are way the fuck out there

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    • dalekcaan@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can create a sentence with an infinite number of “police”

    Who polices the Police?

    Police Police police Police.

    Who polices the Police Police?

    Police Police Police police Police Police.

    And so on…

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    • fl42v@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      * the sound of buffalos approaching *

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    • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Plot twist: There is no police police. ACAB

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    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who polices the Police?

      Police Police police Police.

      Who polices the Police Police?

      Someone called👮😎

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    • cram42@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who polices the Police? 🤷 Coastguard?

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    • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same with “truck”: youtu.be/kccONko4xYE?si=z0Y3_lLN87nMrJIp

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  • airbreather@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    James, while John had had “had”, had had “had had”. “Had had” had had a greater effect on the teacher.

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    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😠

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      • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You must be loving all the technically correct comments on this post

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    • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I came here to post this, it’s my favorite sentence in the English language.

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  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

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  • Purox@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In German the following is a completely valid sentence:

    Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.

    Which translates to when flies fly behind flies, then flies follow flies. The same works for seals:

    Wenn hinter Robben Robben Robben, robben Robben Robben nach.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some Hungarian prefixes can be piled on without limit, while still creating meaning.

      The word “úszni” means “to swim”.

      Úsztatni - to make someone or someone swim
      Úsztattatni - to make someone make someone swim
      Úsztattattattattattattattattattni - to make someone make someone make someone … make someone swim

      Can be done with any verb, and maybe some other suffixes as well.

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      • Purox@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wow, that’s wild. Amazing language

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      • jorm1s@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Strangely enough, this works in Finnish too:Uida - to swim Uittaa - to make someone or someone swim Uitattaa - to make someone make someone swim Uitattattattattattattattattattaa - to make someone make someone make someone … make someone swim It’s almost as if they are related languages or something.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      English has Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo

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      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bison from Buffalo, New York bully bison from Buffalo, New York who bully other bisons.

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      • lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are no buffalo in Buffalo!

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    • mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The same works in Dutch:

      Als vliegen achter vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen vliegen achterna.

      Although my favourite form of that tongue twister is:

      Als vliegende vliegen achter vliegende vliegen vliegen, vliegen de vliegende vliegen vliegensvlug.

      When flying flies fly behind flying flies, the flying flies fly rapidly (“flying fast”).

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      • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can say “fleetly” instead of “rapidly”. Actually “rapidly” sounds incorrect when describing flying.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Robben Robben robben, robben Robben Robben nach.

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  • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “That that” can and probably should be replaced with “that which” in almost every instance it is used.

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    • credo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Many times you don’t need the first “that” at all.

      Did you know that I play soccer?

      Vs

      Did you know I play soccer?

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is both true and less “demonstrative”.

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m surprised that that is your opinion.

      Put that in your thatwhich and eat it ;).

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It annoys me so much when I feel I need to write a sentence like that that I go to great lengths to restructure sentences to avoid it.

    …fuck

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    • Prethoryn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your grammar and sanity are better for it. Actually, most cases I’m which a double that is used you can probably get away with a single that.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is true that that it is almost never necessary.

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always read “read” as “read” but now everything’s different.

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read rhymes with lead the same way read rhymes with lead.

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That one’s a readily available lead on how to pronounce both those words.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is read like lead, not read like lead.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sometimes we have a do do problem, too. I do do that, anyway.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes its called diarrhoea

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!

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    • DillyDaily@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still feel like the nouns are in the wrong place when I read this.

      I’m reading it as “New York cows new York cows bully bully New York cows”

      When I want it to read “New York cows bully new York cows” which would be “Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” which isn’t enough buffalo.

      I have to inset my own “that” to be able to get my head around “Buffalo buffalo (that) Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have fun. Or an aneurysm, whichever:

    ncf.idallen.com/english.html

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Given the fact that that poem is 100 years old, I would have thought that English would have evolved to fix these issues by now. Oh well.

      We need a new language I guess. Maybe it’s time to switch to the most popular language in the works (in terms of number of native speakers): Mandarin Chinese.

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      • NiHaDuncan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As someone who has studied it, have fun with that. While that poem is an outlier, there’s still a ton of things that not even inflection or context can solve.

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      • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe better use second most popular: Spanish, it at least uses same letters (differently though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The use of emojis is.slowly converting written language back to hieroglyphics, so your new language is already happening.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    english is dumb. why do we say “hands,” but we don’t say “foots”? why does “goose” become “geese,” but “moose” doesn’t become “meese”? why is “led” the past tense of “lead,” but “red” is not the past tense of “read”? why don’t “good” and “food” rhyme? LIGHT becomes LIT, fight becomes FOUGHT. peek becomes peeked, seek becomes SOUGHT

    i could do this all day, but i won’t

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      English is three other languages in a trench coat

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    • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At least with my accent, good and food actually rhyme

      Also the reason behind English being weird is foreign influence, sound shifts and late standardisation

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  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t get it after the 2nd had, any chance someone else understands?

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It needs a comma.

      All the good faith I had had, had had no effect.

      Essentially “all the food faith I previously had, didn’t have any effect”.

      Good God English is an awful language.

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      • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure it is grammatically correct with no comma. The version you provided is a comma splice.

        To slightly change the tense, *All the good faith that I had had no effect" is grammatically correct with no comma, so the gerund form should also not need a comma.

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      • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ah that makes sense, thanks!

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      • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It doesn’t need a comma, it needs restructuring. When phrasing it like this, it is customary to add a comma between two adjacent verbs. You could even argue that the first part is an introductory phrase, which would explain the comma too.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        no it’s not. you can find quirks like this in every language.

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      • chicagohuman@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why was your food faith no good?

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    • iSeth@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “…did have, did have…”

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  • Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    English has its flaws, but I don’t agree that that is one of them.

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  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    dass das das das dass da ersetzen kann ist falsch

    translation: that “das” can replace “dass” there is wrong.

    same shit different barbarians

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What exactly is it that you do do?

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What are your duties? You’re going to have a lot of duties but you will be able to unload your duties on the people below you.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meanwhile me getting yelled at for using ð and þ

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    • foofiepie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shavian, right?

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      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I borrowed some ideas from it in how I use ðem, but ð letters are old english alphabet originals, same for ƿ but ðat would incur ð wraþ of even more annoying prescriptivists

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  • Toofpic@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    • Had had had had
    • OH MY GOD, HE HAS A STROKE!
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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m just grouchy today but how in the world does a word coming up twice in a row translate to “a flawed language?”

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    About the sign “Alpha and Bravo”, the spaces between Alpha and and and and and Bravo are too large.

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  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember one time at r/peloton one of those tribalistic mildly-xenophobic nutcases told me, after sharing an article in spanish which had some ambiguous word, something to the effect that “spanish is the most confusing language in the world”.

    Yes, that genius told that. In english.

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “I would never! Not unless you were already having been going to do that!”

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  • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My friends and I call their dog “That” and we’re always saying stuff like “that’s that that!” when he comes down the stairs and such lol

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A comma should be after had had and before had had imo.

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  • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What makes this a “flaw”? Also, show me a " flawless" language (a real one, not loglang or whatever)

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Incoming James While John

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  • Philote@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I present the present as a present to all those present in the present tense.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *had had, has had

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m surprised that that is your criterion.

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