Timeline for What’s wrong with “After roasting the deer, the hunter extinguished the fire and then searched for a tree to hang it from”?
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| Apr 29, 2014 at 9:15 | comment | added | Thom Blair III | It's also possible that the thing wrong with the sentence is that it was intended to be a passage from a popular Swahili proverb, yet through the most bizarre coincidence of typographical errors and chance, actually was printed with the Roman alphabet instead and, amazingly enough, actually spelled some words that bear a very striking resemblance, both in spelling and grammar, to English words. Potentially possible, you have to admit. Even Spock would have to agree it's technically possible. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 9:10 | comment | added | Thom Blair III | In addition, there is no proof that there necessarily is anything wrong with the question -- it could simply have been a test to see if anyone could think outside the box enough to see all the near-infinite possibilities that grammatically and logically could be construed. In fact, perhaps it was part of a test to see if you could become a lawyer, an advocate, perhaps even for the devil him(or her)self. Or for AIG. Or the Lehmen Brothers. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | Thom Blair III | EXACTLY!!! I was looking for just those kinds of pictures but couldn't find any! Thank you for proving my point!! :D PLUS, there is NO proof whatsoever that the fire that was extinguished was in ANY way whatsoever used to cook the deer -- this is strictly assumption based on circumstantial evidence at best. The fire could have been the fire used to light the hunter's cigarette. And, the word "it" could be a very casual way of referring to Stephen King's novel of the same name, which certainly deserved to be hung from a tree in the woods. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 7:56 | comment | added | Cees Timmerman | It can so be done. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 22:54 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 16:15 | history | answered | Thom Blair III | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
