James while John what what what what what what what what what in the butt.
Then I went to Wikipedia and found "List of linguistic sentences", which you'll be surprised to learn has about 30 items, and decided sometimes the internet ruins the joy of finding out things one at a time spaced out over many years.
"Wenn die, die reinwollen, die die rauswollen nicht rauslassen, dann können die, die rauswollen, die die reinwollen nicht reinlassen."
"When those who want to get in [the subway car] don't let those out who want to get out, then those who want to get out can't let those who want to get in get in. (Long live Berlin) [A subway ad]."
(I know it's nothing in comparison to the others, but it's also an actual public transit sign, rather than just a mind-teaser.)
Now how am I gonna find out what I wanna find out if he no find out what I gotta find out?
This was in a puzzle book I had as a kid. I definitely thought that the answer was cheating, in a sense, but that entire book was all about that sort of cheating and/or intentionally misleading gotcha question. It took me a long time to decide that that kind of cleverness was annoying rather than laudable.
I I love love double double Chex Chex!
I couldn't remember the solution of the one in the post offhand, and felt kind of cheated when I looked it up and realized it was two sentences -- I'd been trying to punctuate it as one.
9: you could use a semicolon instead of a period.
Actually, where did you look it up? On wikipedia it does have a semicolon.
(And I swear I didn't just edit it. I don't even know how to edit wikipedia.)
Using quotes around "had had" is a bigger cheat.
Wikipedia has it punctuated with a period on this page, which is where I looked.
15: that's just wikipedia author error. If you click the link in fn 1 on that page (which is the reference for this sentence on that page), you'll see it punctuated with a semicolon there, too.
that's just wikipedia author error.
*snicker*
This sentence contains a link to a list of 159 self-referential sentences.
My single my single is dropping is dropping.
21: People do like the way she says "ham".
4: Die, die die, die die Äpfeln gestolen haben gesehen haben, sollen beim Polizei gehen.
Like 19, some things are VERY BIG IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.
The crazy thing about German is that 23 is a normal sentence. (Those who saw those that stole the apples, please report to the police.)
Am I writing this sentence or reading it?
Are Hans Martin Gärtner and Martin Gardner really two different linguists?
Is Martin Gardner even one different linguist?
Are you asking about Martin Gardner or about somebody else with the same name ?
Are you asking are you asking about Martin Gardner about Martin Gardner in my asking about Martin Gardner in k'sky's asking about Martin Gardner or are you asking are you asking about Martin Gardner about Martin Gardner in k-sky's asking about Martin Gardner?
We must all cultivate our own gardener.
Die, die die, Bart, die.
It's German.
I didn't get the joke until just now. Christ.
I can't believe that German has Dieb "thief" but no dieben "thieve".