Word Puzzle

[phrog]

Hank's post about spelling reminded me of a puzzle I saw in a movie years ago.

Punctuate this so that it makes sense.

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

[poolhound]

How about this? Or that!


That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is!

[phrog]

Very good! Now, what was the movie?

[BadeMillsap]

CHARLY

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[phrog]

I thought Bade was correct and am still puzzling over I Saw That's backwards "R." Did you drag in the Cyrillic alphabet?

You guys are just too good.

[leehljp]

Hank's post about spelling reminded me of a puzzle I saw in a movie years ago.

Punctuate this so that it makes sense.

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

A well known (in Japan) phrase goes something like this:

momo mo momomo mo momo mo mo . . . or something like that! I had it figured out once - in a galaxy far far away!

[phrog]

A well known (in Japan) phrase goes something like this:

momo mo momomo mo momo mo mo . . . or something like that! I had it figured out once - in a galaxy far far away!

Now I want to know the rest of the story.

[leehljp]

Now I want to know the rest of the story.

I forgot the story but it had something to do with peaches which is "momo", then the word "mo" is similar in meaning to "more" and I forgot the other words. A large part of it is a play on words, more like a grade school tongue twister.

[radhak]

I love such 'stories' that hinge on word play.

The one I remember is, how can any sentence contain:

and and and and and

legitimately (ie, grammatically)?

I'll give it awhile for y'all to have fun figuring it out...

Of course, there's the string of buffalo:
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...
(also part of a sentence).

[Bill in Buena Park]

I love such 'stories' that hinge on word play.

The one I remember is, how can any sentence contain:

and and and and and

legitimately (ie, grammatically)?

I'll give it awhile for y'all to have fun figuring it out...

Of course, there's the string of buffalo:
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...
(also part of a sentence).

To avoid a "run on" sentence, I believe you'd need to have multiple pairings of subjects and only one "and" conjunction, something like:

"Bill and Bob went fishing, while Jane and Jill went skating, and Tom and Tim were reading, when Carla and Cathy baked cookies."

[phrog]

I forgot the story but it had something to do with peaches which is "momo", then the word "mo" is similar in meaning to "more" and I forgot the other words. A large part of it is a play on words, more like a grade school tongue twister.

I have a momo plant in my backyard and didn't even know it.

[phrog]

I love such 'stories' that hinge on word play.

The one I remember is, how can any sentence contain:

and and and and and

legitimately (ie, grammatically)?

I'll give it awhile for y'all to have fun figuring it out...

Of course, there's the string of buffalo:
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...
(also part of a sentence).

I don't think there's that many buffalo left in the whole US.

[phrog]

To avoid a "run on" sentence, I believe you'd need to have multiple pairings of subjects and only one "and" conjunction, something like:

"Bill and Bob went fishing, while Jane and Jill went skating, and Tom and Tim were reading, when Carla and Cathy baked cookies."

Sounds good to me.

[radhak]

To avoid a "run on" sentence, I believe you'd need to have multiple pairings of subjects and only one "and" conjunction, something like:

"Bill and Bob went fishing, while Jane and Jill went skating, and Tom and Tim were reading, when Carla and Cathy baked cookies."

Rightly said! That sentence is part of a story where a shopowner asks a painter for a signboard for his shop - "Fish And Chips". When he sees the final product, he complains "...there is too much space between Fish and And and And and Chips..."

The buffalo sentence is well known among linguists. In it the word buffalo is used in three different ways - as a noun (animal), a verb (to bully) and when used to refer to the city Buffalo, as an adjective.

So buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...
is talking about bullying habit among the buffalo from a NY city: because they get bullied they bully others.

To make sense of this, you can use synonyms:
Pittsburg bison Pittsburg bison bully, bully Pittsburg bison
(or expanded, it is - Pittsburg bison that are bullied by other Pittsburg bison, in turn themselves bully other Pittsburg bison)

All clear as mud when you read it here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo

Btw, I read up on CHAЯLY and it sounds like a pretty sad movie.