Hi Nancy:
I dunno . . . still agathering my wits and a cup o' coffee!
I'm stuck trying to write a funny, wrongly-worded sentence and everything I come up with is grammatically correct. Better get some more sleep until I unimprove!
Best.
CC
Sad topic but wrongly worded.
by compound complex 39 Replies latest social humour
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rip van winkle
Good morning Wibby( N.D.), CoCo and surely the rest whose eyes fall upon this page!! ( ouch!)
Just say the word...I'm gamey today.
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nancy drew
She wondered how he gathered wits
was it like socks that someone knits
or maybe like a walk in space
or even like a sailboat race
i guess we'll never really know
until he drinks his cup of joe
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compound complex
Walking down the deserted street, the abandoned dry goods store Grandpa once owned took me down memory lane. -
Oubliette
I love it when a store walks down the street. -
Bobcat
Glenn Close should have canceled his engagement to attend the funeral(s). You see the fuss that was raised against William Shatner . . .
Bobcat
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Oubliette
The young girl was walking the dog in a short skirt. -
GrreatTeacher
Throw the horse over the fence some hay. -
compound complex
Good ones, Oubliette, Bobcat and GrreatTeacher!
Thanks.
CC
What's that lying in the road ahead?
What are we having for dinner Mother?
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Oubliette
What are we having for dinner? Mother!
What's that lying in the road? A head!
I've been reading Steven Pinker's latests, The Sense of Style. In it, he spends a good amount of time dealing with issues of prosody, such as the above, where we would understand the speaker's intentions if we heard it, but when phrases such as these are written, they can be ambiguous and confusing.