KIDNAPPED ROBERY, AND ASSASINATION, CHARGES

REAL LIFE ^ | 15 MAY 2007 | POLICE

[Titan Magroyne]

That is a single sentence by the mr jorge, your rihgt, THANK you!

[TC Rider]

[azhenfud]

I knew that for she call police if for that mexican sistem of money.

[dighton]

For my befuddlement I have only myself to blame. As a mere pinafored child I was taught to diagram English sentences on the blackboard. Consequently, though I can honor Mr. Faulkner as the champion of lost clauses and though I concede the influence of his Doctrine of Original Syntax, for me his sentence structure passes the bounds of parsability. These relative clauses with mysterious antecedents; these parenthetical intruders who drop by for a minute and stay for a week; these qualifications that wear away the original statement till nothing remains but an impalpable verbal dust; these mazy paragraphs in whose dark corridors I wander, a blind, terrified Theseus minus Ariadne’s thread; these non-commutable life sentences — the second one in Requiem for a Nun runs just under two pages: what can a simple country boy like myself, suckled on Fowler’s Modern English Usage, do when set down in the middle of this grammatical Witches’ Sabbath?

— Clifton Fadiman.

[Congressman Billybob]

"Mommas, don't let your children to grow up to be 'mexicans.'" The level of paranoia and illiteracy in this screed is truly impressive. I read the whole thing because I could not help myself.

Congressman Billybob

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[Congressman Billybob]

Your memory is correct. That Faulknerian masterpiece of a long sentence IS 2 1/2 pages long, IS about the establishment of the Pony Express, and appears in Absolom, Absolom. Good memory. And thanks for not posting that sentence. John / Billybob

[GreenLanternCorps]

I read the whole thing because I could not help myself.

And that's two minutes of your life that you will never get back...

[GreenLanternCorps]

What color is the sky in your world?

[Psycho_Bunny]

You know, Mexico spies on you THROUGH YOUR COMPUTER!

TURN IT OFF!

[windcliff]

ping

[nw_arizona_granny]

I could not get the link to work, is there a better one?

Sorry your post went bad, I thought that I was the only one who could post like that.

[MARTIAL MONK]

It’s curious because all previous posts by ‘police’, including one this year, have been clear and precise and written in English. Has the gardener “KIDNAPPED ROBERY, AND ASSASINATION” the real police and stolen his computer?

[rbosque]

OK..............

[AnAmericanMother]

I think Mr. James Joyce holds the record for a run-on sentence. Basically all of Finnegan's Wake.

He, too, was smart enough not to post it here.

[AnAmericanMother]

Yur welkom.

[MozarkDawg]

[humblegunner]

[Xenalyte]

Oddly enough, that is EXACTLY what I thought.

In that typeface, even.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Thanks for that picture and audio...I hadn’t heard that one before.