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(1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.
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.
It is the longest, non-life, officially confirmed sentence ever handed in the European Union. Jamal Zougam: 42,922 years Emilio Suárez Trashorras 34,715 years Charles Scott Robinson 1994 30,000 years United States: Longest jail term to a single American on multiple counts. Also the longest sentence ever handed in the United States.
Here are brief profiles of the men who received the longest sentences. All have 10 days to decide whether to appeal their sentences. DOMINIQUE PELICOT, 72, married Gisele in 1973. The couple, who ...
This is a list of longest prison sentences served by a single person, worldwide, without a period of freedom followed by a second conviction. These cases rarely coincide with the longest prison sentences given, because some countries have laws that do not allow sentences without parole or for convicts to remain in prison beyond a given number of years (regardless of their original conviction).
The longest English words are often rooted in specialized fields, like medicine and literature. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. From technical to whimsical, prepare for your ...
Of course, there can be no proof that English sentences can or cannot be infinitely long, only differences in opinion as to (eg) whether recursive generative grammar type rules actually produce the sentences of English (and only the sentences of English). One could argue that "Who polices the {police * 10000000}" is a sentence on the basis of ...
The Justice Department (DOJ) announced earlier this month that approximately 597 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their activity Jan. 6. About 366 ...