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- From: johnf@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (John James Fournier)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: THAT THAT THAT THAT THAT ...
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 15:58:36 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <C190tr.E6L@newcastle.ac.uk>
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- In article <C190tr.E6L@newcastle.ac.uk> S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (SER) writes:
-
- >Someone said before Christmas that they knew a sentence with 11
- >consecutive "that"s in it.
- >Could you please post it, whoever you are.
- >Infact, if anyone knows it could they post it.
-
- I was once asked that question, and could only think of a sentence with 5
- consecutive 'that's'. Here it is:
-
- 'It is possible that that that that that student used in his
- essay was incorrect.'
-
- Translation: It is possible that this particular 'that' which was used by
- this particular student was incorrect.
-
- Sure, you could say that the student used a sentence with 7 or 8 that's
- consecutively, and insert them in the 3rd position. This could give you an
- infinite number of that's per sentence. Picture the student writing about
- someone who used 20 that's. Then you would have 30 or so. The simplest
- one, that's not too rediculous, is the one above.
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