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The English language has virtually infinite possibilities (even with just 26 letters).

Posted on 05/01/2022 10:21:48 AM PDT by SamAdams76

I have an amazing story about typing classes I took in high school during the 1970s (I was the only boy in the class).

Anyway, more on that later. This post is about the incredible variations on sentences in the English language. Even though we only have 26 letters in this language, unique sentences are still being produced that have never before been created.

Here is an example:

We will not be seeing you at the restaurant we agreed to meet at later today as we have just had tremendous quantities of exotic meats and desserts at this brunch we just attended, let's instead meet at our home at the appointed time where we will have copious amounts of rum, including one we just procured earlier today at this most unique liquor store we happened to stop at earlier today.

I challenge you to find the above sentence in any other form other than the post I just created today, and it's based on reality as I just texted this out to people we will meet later today in a rather convivial and celebratory manner as they had just gotten married (and this sentence is also likely unique and never before written out).

Twenty six letters in the English language and still there are almost an infinite amount of sentences that have not yet been created.


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KEYWORDS: english; epigraphyandlanguage; vanity
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To: SamAdams76

I think the Welsh win for infinite spelling.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch


21 posted on 05/01/2022 10:50:19 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SamAdams76

The subtext of this post is really just about the rum, and you started early. 😜


22 posted on 05/01/2022 10:51:43 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Rebelbase

And I thought that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis was bad . . .


23 posted on 05/01/2022 10:57:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SamAdams76

Each letter you add to a sentence multiplies the combinations by 26. You sentence contains 392 characters. 26 to the power of 392 is greater than the number of atoms in the known universe. So yeah, it’s a safe bet that it’s unique.


24 posted on 05/01/2022 11:01:48 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SamAdams76

The sentence should end between “attended,” and another one should begin at “Let’s”.


25 posted on 05/01/2022 11:11:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Government, when allowed to expand, always ends up using its power to protect its power.)
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To: SamAdams76
We only live a finite amount of time so we can only write finite sentences. Infinity is bigger than any number we can imagine but we can mathematically show some numbers are infinitely long.
26 posted on 05/01/2022 11:12:06 AM PDT by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy Americans has ever had. šŸŠ)
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To: SamAdams76

Try this:

We will not be seeing you at the restaurant we agreed to meet at later today. We have just had tremendous quantities of exotic meats and desserts at this brunch we just attended. Let’s instead, meet at our home at the appointed time where we will have copious amounts of rum. This will include one we just procured at a most unique liquor store we happened to stop at today.

I basically used the same words and order of entry you used. But you ran together a number of sentences that might have lost the reader in the middle of it. Try to write to the simplest capacity of the people you communicate with and don’t put so much information without a break for the reader to process it. It might get through better.

wy69


27 posted on 05/01/2022 11:15:38 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: SamAdams76

“What about the Russian language?”

You think the Russian language doesn’t have an alphabet?


28 posted on 05/01/2022 11:20:35 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Olog-hai

Weatherman pronouncing the word I posted above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM


29 posted on 05/01/2022 11:27:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Olog-hai
The language may have just 26 letters, but we have way more phonemes

yeah, 26 letters, 44 sounds. There is a funny book, ā€œPā€ is for pterodactyl

30 posted on 05/01/2022 11:28:50 AM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: algore

Holy Crap!

Touch typing isn’t really a thing there, is it?


31 posted on 05/01/2022 11:38:31 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: whitney69
"Try this: We will not be seeing you at the restaurant we agreed to meet at later today. We have just had tremendous quantities of exotic meats and desserts at this brunch we just attended. Let’s instead, meet at our home at the appointed time where we will have copious amounts of rum. This will include one we just procured at a most unique liquor store we happened to stop at today. I basically used the same words and order of entry you used. But you ran together a number of sentences that might have lost the reader in the middle of it. Try to write to the simplest capacity of the people you communicate with and don’t put so much information without a break for the reader to process it. It might get through better."

Your revised version is really good!

32 posted on 05/01/2022 11:39:26 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Government, when allowed to expand, always ends up using its power to protect its power.)
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To: SamAdams76
There are only a relative few real numbers that are of interest to mathematicians. Sure, there are an infinite number of them, but the percentage of interesting numbers pales in comparison to those composed of random digits.

If there are an infinite number of sentences that can be created with our alphabet then it is probably the case that quadrillions of monkeys each typing at a thousand words a minute will never type out even one Shakespeare play or even sonnet. There are just too many other nonsense sequences they could type instead.

33 posted on 05/01/2022 11:40:38 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: SamAdams76
I challenge you to find the above sentence in any other form other than the post I just created

We ain't coming, just scored some meat.
Y'all come on by instead and we'll grill and get all hammered up.

34 posted on 05/01/2022 11:51:47 AM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: FatherofFive

1. Lithuanian
Vowels: 12
Consonants: 47
Total number of sounds: 59


35 posted on 05/01/2022 11:53:30 AM PDT by null and void (Russia no longer looks like the #2 military power in the world. Maybe #2 military power in Ukraine)
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To: SamAdams76

Sounds like you started the rum without them.


36 posted on 05/01/2022 12:11:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: Albion Wilde

It certainly does!


37 posted on 05/01/2022 12:13:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (2.33 million active users on Truth Social)
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To: SamAdams76

:-)


38 posted on 05/01/2022 12:13:59 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: Rio

I was kicked out of my school district (concerning an assault on a certain gym coach) and enrolled at Rainier Beach High (notable for having the armed black panthers take over the school). Coming in mid-session I didn’t have a lot of choice picking classes to attend. So I signed up for typing class.

I figured that the worst that might happen was to flunk the course and the best was that I would be the only guy in a classroom full of girls.

It turned out to be a solid win win win - I passed the course, I graduated, and I hooked up with a pretty girl.

I learned how to type too ;’}


39 posted on 05/01/2022 12:15:00 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: AFreeBird; algore
Li Wen, hard at work on the Bible typesetter machine at Amity Press, came to know God in the process of her work as a typesetter.

Typesetters are a specialized form of typewriter. Chinese language typesetters, even with Mandarin being the most dominant language in the country, are at a whole new level of complexity.

I really do miss my time as a volunteer at Wycliffe Bible Translators, but I suspect that their new technology has passed me by completely.

40 posted on 05/01/2022 12:24:51 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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