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(Message started by: babu_km on Mar 27th, 2007, 2:21am)
Title: PUNCTUATION I
Post by babu_km on Mar 27th, 2007, 2:21am
Hi,

I have started this thread bcoz I have not found any for the "PUNCTUATION I"  which is


Add punctuation to the following phrase to make something gramatically and logically coherent:

is is not not not is not is is is is not is not is it not[/font]


my suggestion is ,

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"is is not not not " is not "is is is is not is not is it not"
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Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by ThudanBlunder on Mar 27th, 2007, 3:14am

on 03/27/07 at 02:21:24, babu_km wrote:
my suggestion is ,

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"is is not not not " is not "is is is is not is not is it not"
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Is it: 'Is' is not 'not'. 'Not' is not 'is'. 'Is is' is not 'is not', is it? NOT!

:)

Try this:
dear babu_km i want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior you have ruined me for other men i yearn for you i have no feelings whatsoever when we are apart i can be forever happy will you let me be yours jill

;)
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by BNC on Mar 27th, 2007, 3:48am

on 03/27/07 at 03:14:30, ThudanBlunder wrote:
Is it: 'Is' is not 'not'. 'Not' is not 'is'. 'Is is' is not 'is not', is it? NOT!

:)

Try this:
dear babu_km i want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior you have ruined me for other men i yearn for you i have no feelings whatsoever when we are apart i can be forever happy will you let me be yours jill

;)


I thought it was:
'Is' is not 'not'. 'Not' is not 'is'. 'Is' is 'is'. 'Not' is 'not'. Is it not?


Did you make the "dear babu_km" yourself? Very nice!
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by ThudanBlunder on Mar 27th, 2007, 3:57am

on 03/27/07 at 03:48:14, BNC wrote:
I thought it was:
'Is' is not 'not'. 'Not' is not 'is'. 'Is' is 'is'. 'Not' is 'not'.
Is it not?

It is.


Quote:
Did you make the "dear babu_km" yourself? Very nice!

I wish I could claim that I did, but I didn't. I can't remember where I saw it.


Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by towr on Mar 27th, 2007, 5:21am

on 03/27/07 at 03:57:57, ThudanBlunder wrote:
I wish I could claim that I did, but I didn't. I can't remember where I saw it.
Well, it's really no surprise you'd forget that after two years (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1115600013;start=0#0).. You didn't mention where you found it then either.
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by rmsgrey on Mar 27th, 2007, 6:50am
Lynne Truss uses it as an example in Eats, Shoots and Leaves (or is it Eats Shoots and Leaves?) but I think I recall her saying she got it from somewhere else in turn...
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by TenaliRaman on Mar 27th, 2007, 7:02am

on 03/27/07 at 06:50:40, rmsgrey wrote:
she got it from somewhere else in turn...

Another puzzle to solve then?  ;D

-- AI
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by rmsgrey on Mar 27th, 2007, 7:05am

on 03/27/07 at 07:02:34, TenaliRaman wrote:
Another puzzle to solve then?  ;D

-- AI

I imagine it would only be as hard as finding a copy of the book...
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by ThudanBlunder on Mar 27th, 2007, 7:17am

on 03/27/07 at 05:21:53, towr wrote:
Well, it's really no surprise you'd forget that after two years (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1115600013;start=0#0).. You didn't mention where you found it then either.

Unlike babu_km (who now goes by the name of Keyser Söze), I was aware that it had been posted before.   :P
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by Keyser Söze on Mar 27th, 2007, 7:27am
not to hide from u dude..

just watching how you folks treat a newbie


Quote:
dear babu_km i want a man who knows what love is all about you are generous kind thoughtful people who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior you have ruined me for other men i yearn for you i have no feelings whatsoever when we are apart i can be forever happy will you let me be yours jill
 -- this one is really nice..
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by tiber13 on Apr 22nd, 2007, 4:39pm
or the weird thing at the end of my posts:He said said but I said but but he said I said said but i said but i said said but the teacher said i said said but i said but I said but.
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by ThudanBlunder on Apr 22nd, 2007, 5:24pm

on 04/22/07 at 16:39:48, tiber13 wrote:
or the weird thing at the end of my posts:He said said but I said but but he said I said said but i said but i said said but the teacher said i said said but i said but I said but.

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He said, "said" but I said "but".
"But", he said, "I said 'said'".
But I said "But I said 'said'".
But the teacher said I said "said".
But I said "But I said 'but'".
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Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by CaptainCallipygian on Jun 5th, 2007, 10:55am
Hmmm my take would have to be

He said 'said,' but I said 'but.'
But he said I said 'said,' but i said "but i said 'said!'" But the teacher said i said 'said,'
but i said "but I said but!"
Title: Re: PUNCTUATION I
Post by tiber13 on Jun 8th, 2007, 12:02pm
said is no longer a reason able word to me after i repeate it many times.
i sed


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