Timeline for Is "women men girls love meet die" a valid sentence?
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| Mar 30, 2015 at 6:41 | history | edited | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 7:54 | history | edited | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 7:47 | history | edited | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:21 | comment | added | Erik Kowal | You didn't explicitly suggest making such a substitution, but it seems to me that the possibility of being able to do so is implicit in your exegesis. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:18 | history | edited | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:16 | comment | added | Frames Catherine White | @ErikKowal: You seem to have misunderstood the purpose of calling the names. I was not suggesting that they were variables to be substituted in, just that It would help in the explanation. I have edited to clear that up I hope. (It is definitely a poor sentence, but it seems the authors claim it is a valid one)) | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:15 | comment | added | Frames Catherine White | @Mari-LouA: That sounds like the beginning of a answer. Go ahead and make one. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:13 | history | edited | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:10 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | And there's no need for a comma? I am dubious about its validity, although "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is your standard example of a perfectly grammatical but nonsensical sentence, I have no trouble understanding its absurdity, whereas the quote "women men girls love meet die" seems to defy logic. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 6:09 | comment | added | Erik Kowal | Let's substitute the terms using your names: "Cathy Bill Amy loves meets dies". That is just as incomprehensible as your original sentence. I put it to you that if either version of a contorted sentence like this one cannot be understood without being supplemented by a convoluted (and in this case, completely unconvincing) explanation, it does not, using any reasonable yardstick, make sense. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 5:07 | history | edited | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | Frames Catherine White | Your right, it should be does. Editting.\ | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 5:05 | comment | added | herisson | Does it really say that this can happen, or that it does happen? I would think it means the latter. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 5:02 | history | answered | Frames Catherine White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |