How Many Meanings Can Mean Have?

[Adrian Baker]

and and and and and

Well, being inspired by Monique's original posting, I decided a challenge was in order.

Make up a sensible sentence in English with the word 'and' written within it five times consecutively... and and and and and and

It CAN be done!

 

[Hurkyl]

I can do 6 "that"s.

 

[Monique]

Originally posted by Adrian Baker
Well, being inspired by Monique's original posting, I decided a challenge was in order.

Make up a sensible sentence in English with the word 'and' written within it five times consecutively... and and and and and and

It CAN be done!

I cheated but here it is:

Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

 

[Monique]

Originally posted by Hurkyl
I can do 6 "that"s.

And? *waiting*

 

[Hurkyl]

I figured I'd give y'all a chance to come up with 6 of that word in a row on your own.

Well, you can see that that 'that' that that 'that' references has, indeed, been used 6 times in a row in this sentence!

 

[Monique]

nice :) and I actually understand that sentence :) (unlike mine :()

 

[Hurkyl]

Bah, yours wasn't hard to understand, but I agree it was kinda cheating.

It took me forever to figure out how to make mine grammatically correct (the way to do it literally just popped into my head as I was giving up and writing the grammatically incorrect version)

 

[Monique]

That's how all great scientific breakthroughs are made right? Through mistakes

I took the shortcut.. I looked if anyone had already discovered it before (gooooogled)

 

[Hurkyl]

I had seen a sentence with 6 'that's long long ago, but I couldn't remember how it was written. I could only find 5 that's in a row googling.