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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.
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a 2000 children's book written by adult novelist George Saunders. It was Saunders' first children's book. It was Saunders' first children's book. [ 1 ]
Story of the Two Lack-Tacts of Cairo and Damascus (837–840) Tale of Himself Told By the King (912–917) Appendix I - Catalogue of Wortley Montague Manuscript Contents; Appendix II; Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol IV of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby; Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol V of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby
Perseveration is a common feature of frontal lobe syndrome, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome and chronic acetogenin poisoning. [8] Perseveration may also refer to the obsessive and highly selective interests of individuals on the autism spectrum.
Two friends playing the Telephone Game outside. If there was ever a game to test your listening skills, your attention to detail and your ability around a tongue-twister or two, it’s the ...
Punctuation can be used to introduce ambiguity or misunderstandings where none needed to exist. One well known example, [17] for comedic effect, is from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (ignoring the punctuation provides the alternate reading).
Mar. 31—A Fentress County man pled guilty to an information charging theft, and dozens of other defendants made Cumberland County Criminal Court appearances on the deadline and arraignment dockets.
The first section introduces the subject of the narrator’s previous life as a bat and asserts the claim that disbelief in reincarnation is proof of not being “a serious person.” [2] For evidence, the narrator creates a syllogism listing as proposition 1 that “a great many people believe in” past lives and as proposition 2 that “sanity is a general consensus about the content of ...