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Friday, November 22, 2002 A good friend, Eugenie (Hi Eug!), popped into my house today and we discussed the usual... you know - the meaning of 'intelligence' and its myriad subtleties tHEREIN, and we also discussed "Repeated Word In A Sentence". A while ago, over at her house, we skimmed through this growse book that had all these cooky language facts. And one of them was the Repeated Word deal. It is my intention to post one of these every once in a while and see if people like them... and even if they don't, I'll post anyone. Blogblogblog. "What is a sentence with the same word repeated several times There is a common misconception that surrounds this problem, namely, that the following sentence has the word "had" seven times in a row: Jill, where Jack had had "had", had had "had had". The misconception lies not in not recognizing the difference between using a word and mentioning a word. When a word is used in a sentence, it is not quoted; when it is mentioned, it is quoted. The quoted word "had" is not the same as the unquoted word "had". Therefore, this sentence has no more than two repeats of any word. The most satisfying case if repeated words occurs when the repeated words all mean different things in the sentence. An example of unsatisfactory repitition is intensifying an adjective or adverb by simply repeating it over and over: The coffee was very very very very very ... very hot. Even though the word "very" occurs arbitrarily many times, it means the same in each case. A sentence can be constructed that has a noun repeated arbitrarily many times, followed by a verb repeated the same number of times: 1. Bulldogs fight. 2. Bulldogs bulldogs fight fight. (ie Bulldogs (that) bulldogs fight, (themselves) fight.) 3. Bulldogs bulldogs bulldogs fight fight fight. (ie Bulldogs (that) bulldogs (that) bulldogs fight, (themselves) fight, (themselves) fight.)" Craziness... I don't get the last one. Someone help me out. Stay tunedposted by AJ | 11:08 PM | | ||
