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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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: english; epigraphyandlanguage; vanity
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To: algore

6 monkeys. Half an hour.


41 posted on 05/01/2022 1:06:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

No matter the number of monkeys, they’d destroy the typewriters before bothering to make one keystroke.


42 posted on 05/01/2022 1:22:44 PM 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

This makes it seem amazing that words and phrases in the vein “like, um”, “bombshell”, and so on are all that people can utter these days.


43 posted on 05/01/2022 5:36:19 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Rio

The IBM Selectric was the most wonderful thing ever invented.


44 posted on 05/01/2022 5:37:21 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: rockrr

I have a story to relate about typing on the old manual typewriters. My dad in the 1930s went to the state typing championship with about 75 girls. He won. He could type on those old manuals like lightning. In WWII he was snagged by the Adjutant General’s Corp and prepared Courts Martial document for a good part of the European Theater in forward HQ. He rose all the way to Master Sgt and the Army wanted him to take a WO rank and go to law school on their at wars end.

In his 80s he could still type faster on a manual than most typists could on an electric. He did love his IBM Executive and kept one functional long after they were off the market — erasable ribbon and all.


45 posted on 05/01/2022 5:49:39 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

I had an IBM Selectric that I bought at auction. God those things were heavy! I was never more than competent at typing but it has proved useful over the years.


46 posted on 05/01/2022 6:22:43 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: texas booster

Thank you for the clarification.

Most appreciated.


47 posted on 05/01/2022 7:00:54 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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