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  2. The Quiller Memorandum - Wikipedia

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    The Quiller Memorandum is a 1966 British neo noir eurospy film filmed in Deluxe Color and Panavision, adapted from the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Elleston Trevor under the name "Adam Hall", screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson, featuring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow and Senta Berger.

  3. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.

  4. Valediction - Wikipedia

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    The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article , discuss the issue on the talk page , or create a new article , as appropriate.

  5. 'Wait, What Did You Say?' 125 Tongue-Twisting Telephone Game ...

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    Hard Sentences and Tongue-Twisters for Broken Telephone. 1. Betty Bottle bought some bitter bits of butter. 2. Black bats back bricks. 3. Corn cobs cost copious amounts. 4. Doorknobs and door ...

  6. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  7. The Berlin Memorandum - Wikipedia

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    The Berlin Memorandum (UK title, published by Collins; published as The Quiller Memorandum in the US by Simon & Schuster), [1] is a 1965 spy novel written by Elleston Trevor (under the pseudonym Adam Hall).

  8. Tongue-in-cheek - Wikipedia

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    The physical act of putting one's tongue into one's cheek once signified contempt. [4] For example, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, which was published in 1748, the eponymous hero takes a coach to Bath and on the way apprehends a highwayman. This provokes an altercation with a less brave passenger:

  9. Here's the key sentence that Republicans will point to ... - AOL

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    The memo from Rep. Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, contains one key sentence on which Republicans will look to seize. The memo from Rep. Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence ...