How many monkeys do you need for this?
I think that’s actually two sentences.
I also took typing class in probably 1976 or ‘77. I do not, however, recall a noticeable imbalance of female vs male students. And our teacher was Mr. Fred Rodgers.
“almost an infinite amount of sentences that have not yet been created.”
Frivolous use of conjunctions allow a clause to be added to any ‘sentence’ thus “almost” is limiting as there are infinite possibilities.
BTW, your ‘sentence’ is hard to read even on a big screen
The English language??
Why just the English language?
Any language with an alphabet has that same feature. And even Chinese.
26 letters, but at least 2 to 3 times the number of pronunciations.
There was probably a more subtle way to get out of paying for dinner...
Well...even just doing 26^26 is 6.1561195802071573107966742884002e+36, which doesn’t include words with more than one instance of the same letter, or sentences that are more than 26 letters.
So yeah, there’s probably simple sentences that have never been uttered.
The language may have just 26 letters, but we have way more phonemes. Having one letter for each phoneme could result in having as many as (or more than) 32 letters, such as in Russian Cyrillic.
Using “th” for two different phonemes is very confusing. Not to mention silent letters.
Anyone with just a few brain cells was already aware of your premise.
What is your point, exactly? I have to believe that your intent is more than simply saying that the English language has infinite possibilities.
I think the Welsh win for infinite spelling.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
The subtext of this post is really just about the rum, and you started early. 😜
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.
The sentence should end between “attended,” and another one should begin at “Let’s”.
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.
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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.
We ain't coming, just scored some meat.
Y'all come on by instead and we'll grill and get all hammered up.
Sounds like you started the rum without them.
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.