Rearranging Word Riddle: Opposite Meaning with Same Words

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The discussion focuses on creating sentences with similar yet opposite meanings by rearranging words. Participants explore various constructions, emphasizing the relationship between large and tiny animals and their roars. Suggestions include phrases like "When tiny animals let loose a roar, they are such beasts that they scare large humans," and variations that maintain the original theme while altering the subject and structure. The conversation highlights the playful nature of language manipulation and the challenge of maintaining coherence while flipping the meaning. Overall, the exchange showcases creativity in sentence formation and the nuances of language.
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Can you make another sentence with a similar, though opposite, meaning of the one below by rearranging the words?

When large humans scare tiny animals, they are such beasts that they let loose a roar.
 
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Tiny animals scare humans that they are large beasts when they let loose such a roar.

How's that?
 
When tiny animals let loose a roar, they are such beasts that they scare large humans.

or better

Tiny animals are such beasts that when they let loose a roar, they scare large humans.
 
(simple but it works) When tiny animals scare large humans, they are such beasts that they let loose a roar.


(changed a bit more)
When beasts let loose a roar, they are such large animals that they scare tiny humans.

or, similarly...

When large animals let loose a roar, they are such beasts that they scare tiny humans.
 
Large animals, such beasts that they are, scare tiny humans when they let loose a roar.
 
Humans are such tiny animals that
when they let loose a roar
they scare large beasts.
 
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