• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    One of my favorite examples of crazy English is: “All of the faith that he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.”

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      6 months ago

      On the exam, Johnny, while Bobby had had ‘had’, had had ‘had had’. ‘Had had’ had had a better effect on the teacher.

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      6 months ago

      The owner of a fish and chips shop in Blackpool was having a sign made. The sign painter drew a mock up, and showed it to the shop owner, but it was a little cramped. The shop owner asked the sign painter to “leave a little more space between fish and and and and and chips.”

      Realising how funny it sounded he said, “wait, no, write that down! I can call my shop that!” The sign painte diligently drew up another draft, but again it was a little cramped. The shop owner, exasperated, said “no, now we need more space between fish and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and chips!”

      He paused, and his face lit up, “write that down!” And so te sign painter…

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          6 months ago

          A more detailed version of the sentence would be:

          We need more space between the word fish & the word and, & the word and & the word chips

          3 of the "and"s are the literal actual word “and”, while the other two are referring to the word “and” on the sign.