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The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
An ambigram is a visual pun of a special kind: a calligraphic design having two or more (clear) interpretations as written words. One can voluntarily jump back and forth between the rival readings usually by shifting one's physical point of view (moving the design in some way) but sometimes by simply altering one's perceptual bias towards a ...
Afrikaans makes use of reduplication to emphasize the meaning of the word repeated and to denote a plural or event happening in more than one place. For example, krap means "to scratch one's self," while krap-krap-krap means "to scratch one's self vigorously", [19] whereas "dit het plek-plek gereën" means "it rained here and there". [20]
The challenge is to format: james while john had had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher hed have had an a...which has one more had than the one given here. James, while John had had "had", had had "had had". Had "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher, he'd have had an "A".
The post 26 Palindrome Examples: Words and Phrases That Are the Same Backwards and Forwards appeared first on Reader's Digest. Palindrome words are spelled the same backward and forward.
Each use of the word 'milk' in the examples above could have no use of intonation, or a random use of intonation, and so meaning is reliant on gesture. Anne Carter observed, however, that in the early stages of word acquisition children use gestures primarily to communicate, with words merely serving to intensify the message. [12]
Use of the circumfix a- . . . -in' in progressive tenses. He was a-hootin' and a-hollerin'. The wind was a-howlin'. The use of like to to mean nearly. I like to had a heart attack. (I nearly had a heart attack) The use of the simple past infinitive vs present perfect infinitive. I like to had. vs I like to have had. We were supposed to went.
Most folks would argue that flirting can, in fact, be hard. You have to balance so many spinning plates, to be funny, interesting and not drive the other person away. However, there are always a ...