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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:43 pm 
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The first and last letters thing doesn't work well, when the text is chosen poorly - or even randomly.

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Uopn ransileeg the tirgegr, the snlig and the baem swing aorund twraod the vetcaril piiosotn, wrhee one end of the snlig reeelass, onnepig the puoch and plrlnpoieg the pjctireloe twraods the tgerat.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:35 am 
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Here is another funny side of English and the power of the human brain:

ACCRDOING TO A RSESERACH DNOE BY SCTIENSITS, THE HMAUN BIARN CAN RAED WRODS EEVN IF TEHY ARE IN JUBMELD FORM, IF THE FRSIT AND THE LSAT WRDOS ARE IN CORERCT ODRER.

Seen it? Even if they are in jumbled form, you can read the above lines very easily.


Shouldn't it be the last and first letters instead of words? ;-)


Right. Thanks for pointing it out.

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The first and last letters thing doesn't work well, when the text is chosen poorly - or even randomly.

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Uopn ransileeg the tirgegr, the snlig and the baem swing aorund twraod the vetcaril piiosotn, wrhee one end of the snlig reeelass, onnepig the puoch and plrlnpoieg the pjctireloe twraods the tgerat.


I arege wtih taht. I deos not wrok in smoe sennetces whree the wrods are too lnog.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:07 am 
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Here is something very interesting I found after doing a little research.
In some sentences, if you place a word in different parts of the sentences, the complete meaning of sentence can be changed.
For example- The woodcutter took the axe and cut down the tree. (Original sentence)
1. Only the woodcutter took the axe and cut down the tree. (No one else did.)
2. The only woodcutter took the axe and cut down the tree. (Lonesome woodcutter.)
3. The woodcutter only took the axe and cut down the tree. (He didn't do anything else.)
4. The woodcutter took only the axe and cut down the tree. (He didn't use any other tool.)
5. The woodcutter took the only axe and cut down the tree. (Lonesome axe.)
6. The woodcutter took the axe and cut down only the tree. (He didn't cut anything else.)
7. The woodcutter took the axe and cut down the only tree. (Lonesome tree.)


This is just an example I created myself. There are many such sentences.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:09 am 
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Wright1000 wrote:
Here is something very interesting I found after doing a little research.
In some sentences, if you place a word in different parts of the sentences, the complete meaning of sentence can be changed.
For example- The woodcutter took the axe and cut down the tree. (Original sentence)
1. Only the woodcutter took the axe and cut down the tree. (No one else did.)
2. The only woodcutter took the axe and cut down the tree. (Lonesome woodcutter.)
3. The woodcutter only took the axe and cut down the tree. (He didn't do anything else.)
4. The woodcutter took only the axe and cut down the tree. (He didn't use any other tool.)
5. The woodcutter took the only axe and cut down the tree. (Lonesome axe.)
6. The woodcutter took the axe and cut down only the tree. (He didn't cut anything else.)
7. The woodcutter took the axe and cut down the only tree. (Lonesome tree.)


This is just an example I created myself. There are many such sentences.

This is genius. It's so good it gave me wood. :D get it?

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:47 am 
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I'm glad you liked it. But if you are calling me a genius, then I must say that I am not.
Anyway, I hope you know that a guinea pig is not from guinea nor it is a pig.
Here is another funny poem:
English is a stupid language.
There is no egg in the eggplant
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England
French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that
Quicksand takes you down slowly
Boxing rings are square
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth
If the teacher taught,
Why didn't the preacher praught.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!

English was invented by people, not computers
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all)

That is why
When the stars are out they are visible
But when the lights are out they are invisible
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts
But when I wind up this observation,
It ends.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:00 pm 
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He-heh, that's pretty funny. And true.

One small thing though: In "If the teacher taught,/Why didn't the preacher praught." it should be 'hasn't' instead of 'didn't'. Or something like that.

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lql xD My friend told me the exact same thing a few weeks ago!

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:51 am 
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He-heh, that's pretty funny. And true.

One small thing though: In "If the teacher taught,/Why didn't the preacher praught." it should be 'hasn't' instead of 'didn't'. Or something like that.


I can't follow.
Would you mind explaining what you are talking about?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:47 pm 
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Just that if 'taught' is the past form of 'teach', 'praught' should be the past form of 'preach'. Which is why it shouldn't be 'didn't praught' - after 'didn't' we use present tense.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:39 am 
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I still don't understand what you are talking about.
Fine, forget it.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:54 am 
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I went for a job interview yesterday. Here is what happened:

Interviewer : Give me the opposite words.
Wright: All right.
Interviewer : Made in India.
Wright : Destroyed in Pakistan.
Interviewer : Maxi Mum.
Wright: Mini Dad.
Interviewer : Good... Keep it Up.
Wright: Bad... Keep it Down.
Interviewer : Enough! Take your Seat.
Wright: Insufficient! Don't take my seat.
Interviewer: Idiot! Take your seat.
Wright: Intelligent! Don't take my seat.
Interviewer: I say you get out!
Wright: You didn't say I come in.
Interviewer : I reject you!
Wright: You appoint me!

And that's how I got the job!

Proper punctuation:
"A woman without her man is nothing"
Teacher wrote it on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly...
All guys in the class wrote:
"A woman without her man, is nothing."
All the girls in the class wrote:
"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:14 am 
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Wright1000 wrote:
Proper punctuation:
"A woman without her man is nothing"
Teacher wrote it on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly...
All guys in the class wrote:
"A woman without her man, is nothing."
All the girls in the class wrote:
"A woman: without her, man is nothing."

That only serves to show that the language skills of guys are worse than those of gals. Only the sentence written by the girls is correct.

"A woman without her man is nothing", with the period at the end, already has the correct punctuation. The comma in the end is just plain wrong, though there is an optional way to do it correctly with two commas: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."

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To be absolutely frank, both the sentences are wrong.

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Which two sentences are wrong?

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