/lit/ - Literature

>>20511961
do do

>>20511961
really really

>>20511964
with ith

>>20511961
That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is.

>>20512080
nice try ESL

>>20512080
English is actually my third language monolingoid.

>>20511961
Stupid frogposter.

>>20511961
Kino…

>>20511961
Dios mio

>>20511961
The fact that that had had to be written to to a certain degree of course to do with that being being henceforth written about about 5 years ago could not not be said to be be it not for the way it had had to be written.

>>20511961

Once upon a time there were three witches who had together a cottage in the forest, the which was bedecked with potions and books. They did not prey upon children (usually), but rather as traditional sorts they concentrated their efforts on love magic Nevertheless, each had perfected her own best attacking spell: one transformed its target into a newt, the second transformed its target into a ridiculous little mouse, and the third transformed its target into an ugly old man.

One day, a handsome white knight strode through the estate astride his equally white horse. He whoaed his steed and spoke aloud to witches three. One was doing yoga, a second was picking berries, and a third stood closest to him.

-Which road had I better take on yon fork?
The third spake, hoping to en-trance him, saying simply
-Yes.

The stopping of a stud atop a stud stood the coven in a high dudgeon. Knowing that he had erred, (but not before locking eyes with each witch which would watch him), and sensing that each woman was quite ugly, our errant made fast simply to remove himself, not caring that that road which he chanced to proceed upon was less traveled. Woe Betide Me, thought he, that that causeway which caused the case of my presence in that place had had the unhappy effect of effecting myself to enquire

Howbeit that an unholy hovel harbors hardy harridans of a hair, it was hastily that our hags harassed, and began themselves to quarrel over him. Almost simultaneously they each cast their most powerful spell at one of the others. But this working was attended in each case by a secondary effect, common to all: a severe and confusing case of amnesia, so that when it was done, and the newt, the mouse and the old wretch beheld each other, they were dimly aware that each had been changed, and that they themselves had somehow done the changing, one to another. But when they pondered, for each spell, who the caster and whomst the intended victim in each case, they eachwise found it impossible to pronounce, as for who the original targeter was of each and the effect of the spell thereunto, which witch that that had had.

>that had
yep makes sense go on
>that that had
awkward but still makes sense
>that that had had
how the fuck do you ever end up with this?

>>20511961
>and but so then

>>20513094
"The customers continued to use the ice cream machine, blissfully unaware that that had had human feces in it just the day before." Or something like that.

>>20513100
>The customers continued to use the ice cream machine, blissfully unaware that it had human feces in it just the day before.
There you go. There isn't ever a need to use that awkward wording.

>>20513095
Woah...

>>20513110
so ur sayin ur gay?

>>20513100
You'd say "it had had" in that case, not "that"

>>20511961
buffalo buffali buffalum buffalae buffalius

Anti anti social social club club

>>20511961
James, while John had had “had,” had had “had had;” “had had” had had a better effect on the teacher.

>>20511961
Well, well, well.

From: A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5 by Jasper Fforde

>>20513095
I'll forever maintain "and but so" doesn't work by any stretch of grammar.

>>20512961
the fact that that "that that" is grammatically correct just proves how retarded english is.

>>20516555
the fact that that "that that that that" that you typed is grammatically correct just proves how retarded english is

>>20516017
i wouldnt get into a grammer argument with DFW bro, he is a mega autist about that stuff

>>20513094
That that had had, and that that had not

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

>>20511961
Which Witch is which

>>20513095
Never used.

>>20513094
Something like
"The fact that that had had been known to be difficult motivated him"

>>20516561
Yeah but he's dead so what's he gonna do?

>>20511961
Fuck english. Does Lojban do this bullshit?

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

>>20516555
Why is it retarded

>>20511961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7EcmRiLeUs

>>20511964
oh oh

>that that that had had
i'm thinking based

>>20512160
i love them

>>20516600
best one here