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Do you know the answer to this riddle
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #1 on: Oct 9th, 2003, 9:13am » |
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u see noone nos the answer
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #2 on: Oct 9th, 2003, 9:19am » |
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I'm sure we all know what the answer is. The problem is that nobody knows what the question is.
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #3 on: Oct 9th, 2003, 5:28pm » |
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A believe the question is: "One sentence is from this word."
This is a bit puzzling. "One word is from this sentence." would be trivial: the answer is "missing".
But reversing those two words makes it difficult to come up with an answer that is satisfying. Perhaps the answer is "mixed-up"?
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #4 on: Oct 9th, 2003, 7:53pm » |
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This twenty one word sentence is easily changed from this meaningful statment to a six word nonsense riddle by removing words.
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #5 on: Oct 11th, 2003, 4:10pm » |
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What one whacked sentence riddle is made from taking this question and removing every other word, every "and", and every "every"?
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #6 on: Oct 12th, 2003, 12:30am » |
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on Oct 11th, 2003, 4:10pm, Rezyk wrote:| What one whacked sentence riddle is made from taking this question and removing every other word, every "and", and every "every"? |
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one sentence is from this removing word?
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #7 on: Oct 13th, 2003, 6:45pm » |
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One sentence is made from this word.
That word is attendance "At ten, dance!" In the declarative.
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #8 on: Oct 14th, 2003, 1:59am » |
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on Oct 12th, 2003, 12:30am, BNC wrote:one sentence is from this removing word?
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BNC, if we remove in the order given, i.e. first every other word, then every "and", then every "every", Rezyk's idea works out.
Speaker, I think that's an imperative, not a declarative. Anyway, using the assumption you made, it's a nice solution.
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #9 on: Oct 14th, 2003, 5:21pm » |
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wowbagger, it is imperative, the imperative mood, but it is also a declarative sentence. Since the riddle called for a sentence, I did it that way. At least that was my intention, now maybe I am just trying to support my answer with some grammatical hoodoo. The more I look at this, the more imperative it becomes to agree with you. 
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Re: one sentence is from this word
« Reply #10 on: Oct 16th, 2003, 4:25am » |
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on Oct 14th, 2003, 5:21pm, Speaker wrote:| it is also a declarative sentence. |
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You're right - I just didn't get it back then. I would have put a dash between your word and the explanation and written the "In" in lowercase. At least I'd have gotten it immediately then. 
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