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Friday, January 23, 2009

What's the most bizarre, inexplicable sentence you can find?

This is my entry:
In the “Manga de Yomu Boeisho Hakusho (Defense Ministry White Papers in Manga)” series printed in 2005, a little girl wearing “Lolita” fashions and an apron is involved in exchanges — sometimes violently — with a hawkish stuffed teddy bear as they rumble over the way Japan should defend itself.
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4 comments:

  1. Mark EatonJanuary 23, 2009 at 7:36 AM

    "Mission accomplished!"

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  2. Horace Jeffery HodgesJanuary 23, 2009 at 9:25 AM

    Mark, isn't that more of a phatic enunciation than a sentence? Bush's sentences are complex, recursive structures that lose themselves in their syntax. He avoided that in this case sticking to only two words.

    Jeffery Hodges

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  3. Mark EatonJanuary 23, 2009 at 11:19 PM

    Jeffery, I believe phatic is spot on. Granted, citizen Bush seemed the human rendition of the 8-track tape when he spoke while CIC, yet the potentially profound statement of 'Mission Accomplished' exclaimed so early in the war defied reason. Frankly, it might well pass as a paragraph for the person in question.

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  4. Ed ProvencherJanuary 24, 2009 at 10:56 AM

    Any English sentence that comes out of the mouth of my direct supervisor counts as the most bizarre, inexplicable sentence.

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