Can you create a sentence, that makes sense, with five “ands” in a row, before watching today’s video?
Think about that for a bit. Then see how this clever fellow does exactly that!
Fun Fridays – June 28, 2024
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World…Word by Word
The Steve Laube Agency
Helping to Change the World Word by Word
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Consider the sentence, “We will consider the difference between ‘also’ and ‘and’.”
Now, mentally add an asterisk between each word.
Thus, we have added asterisks between also and and, and and and and.
Now I have vertigo.
I think you could get a few more using the same method…
Consider the sentence, “We will consider the difference between ‘also’ and ‘and’ and ‘additionally’.
Now, mentally add an asterisk between each word.
Thus, we have added asterisks between also and and, and and and and, and and and additionally.
Sharp, Andrew!
Thanks, Jana. Right now I am a headache.
Or have a headache.
Whatever.
Today (only today), the headache is well deserved. 😉
I grew up watching the Curiosity Show in Australia. It was a great show!
Only you, Andrew, could come up with such witticism.
Andrew, I have no idea how you did that, and would be surprised if you added so many and without getting a headache! LOL!
Interesting, since I consider 3 n’s in a row as nnn, 5 is nnnnn…. mmmm!
She threw a slew of choice words at him And he ran for the garage And she followed her henpecked husband And the air grew bluer and bluer And he almost ran her over gettin’ gone And he hit the radio And blocked it all out with a sigh.
Well, I don’t have five “ands” in a row, but I did have a student who have used the word “like” 117 times in a five-minute speech and another one who said “um” 54 times in the same five-minute speech (happily, it was on a different day). It like, um, drove like me like crazy like, um.
So cute, Sheri. And thanks for Sheri-ing.
This post reminds me of a similar puzzle that fascinated me in my youth.
Can you make sense of this sentence:
Dan where Steve had had had had had had had.
The statement refers to two editors who prefer different verb structures for a sentence. Steve prefers past tense. Dan prefers past perfect.
Dan, where Steve had had “had,” had had “had had.”
Phew. I think that makes sense.