This sentence is grammatically correct

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  1. Worldrefrain

    Worldrefrain Well-Known Member

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    I thought this was going to be the sentence that is just the word “buffalo” repeated a bunch, but it wasn’t and that makes me sad.
     
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  2. Westeller

    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    The second sentence switches tenses in the middle. "Will will" is future, "yet that assassin was", along with the rest of the sentence, is past tense. "Meant". "Worked". .. A shame. I liked "will will" even more than "that that", and that was a close competition.

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    For anyone who's confused:

    The old folk manning a ship targeted by the universally-hated Empire had a secret that showed how to destroy the super large Empire. I guess the targeting failed, because the young folk guard the secret now. The Emperor, who is loved by a commoner Empress, doesn't give up easily, however, and will order an assassin left by the previous Emperor to take that secret back. Unfortunately, the assassin is part of a stupidly named organization opposed to the current Emperor, so the secret that would destroy the Empire will not be successfully stolen. ..... I trimmed some details, like the fact that the Empress "rules" the Emperor and that the Emperor reveres the Ancients who created the secret. Or whatever.

    Edit: Was tricked by the verb "man". Fixed.
     
  3. UnGrave

    UnGrave ななひ~^^

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    And here I sit, lamenting the failure of my most hyped anime this season, while you're all cheery and adding views to your site. You better have that tool installed to see how many people came from this page, you hear? I need to know how many of us clicked on that.
     
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  4. Haxagen

    Haxagen Fallen's|Addicted to Gacha

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    It's lysultima-tely correct no matter which way you read it. :blobpopcorn_cool:
     
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  5. LysUltima

    LysUltima Riichi! Tsumo! Toitoi! Suuankou!?

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    That's only 2 adjectives, though :(
    Technically, a sentence can be infinite words, though it wouldn't be much fun to read, which is why you should read at Ebisu.
    It's just as correct as your post: missing some punctuation. :p
    What I do for fun.
    Pen shouldn't be capitalized.
    Plus, my penis bigger than yours, so you're incorrect in two ways.
    Police police police Police police.
    Oof, my habit of translating Japanese present tense to past tense is bleeding into English. Fixed.
     
  6. UnGrave

    UnGrave ななひ~^^

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    You have to give length when you make that claim. It's the rule.
     
  7. Haxagen

    Haxagen Fallen's|Addicted to Gacha

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    X to doubt

    Plus, Lys-chan is a grill, so that's impossible
     
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  8. LK

    LK Well-Known Member

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    Ouch
     
  9. King0Mik

    King0Mik 【An Actual Idiot】

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    Not for grammar, but for readability.

    To my knowledge, grammar was originally a construct in order to allow people to better understand each other. There's really no point in having something "grammatically correct" if it is difficult to comprehend by an average person.
     
  10. LysUltima

    LysUltima Riichi! Tsumo! Toitoi! Suuankou!?

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    You got the first part wrong :p
    Haha. Probably like 3. And what anime?
    I didn't write the sentence to be readable. I wrote it to try to stretch English grammar rules to the point of no return.
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    grills can still have pens
     
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  11. Westeller

    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    You wouldn't even write this paragraph as it is, commas or no, if readability was the concern...
     
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  12. UnGrave

    UnGrave ななひ~^^

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    Shoot, I lost again.
     
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  13. Westeller

    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    ...?

    "The old man the ship targeted by the Empire hated by the people had had that that showed how to destroy the Empire large enough to span the continent making up the whole world a thousand years since creation"

    The old man the ship had.
    The ship targeted by the Empire.
    The Empire hated by the people.
    The old man had that.
    That that showed how to destroy...

    Which part?
     
  14. LysUltima

    LysUltima Riichi! Tsumo! Toitoi! Suuankou!?

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    Man is a verb.
    I'm dying...XD
     
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  15. Westeller

    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    Okay, you got me with that one.

    I should have known, given the use of "the young" in the next bit.
     
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    Haxagen Fallen's|Addicted to Gacha

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    :blobhyperthink:
     
  17. Westeller

    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    On second thought, that means the word has to be "manning".

    "The old folk manning the ship had"
    vs "The old folk man the ship had"

    Does this sink your masterpiece? :blobfearful:

    "who had manned" or something would also work, ofc.
     
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  18. LysUltima

    LysUltima Riichi! Tsumo! Toitoi! Suuankou!?

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    The old man the ship that had. Great! An excuse to have a "that had had that that."
     
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    Westeller Smokin' Sexy Style!! Staff Member

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    I admit, I am impressed.
     
  20. raitei

    raitei ⟪Procyon lotor paronomasiaabsentii⟫

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    The whole thread be like:
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    You know the usual ancedote about English language;
    "English isn't a language, it's three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat."
     

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