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ThudnBlunder
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Sentence Construction
« on: Jun 22nd, 2003, 11:55pm » |
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1) Form a sentence which describes its own letter, syllable, and word count.
2) Construct a true sentence of the form:
"This sentence contains __ a's, __ b's, __ c's, ...", where the blanks represent numbers that are spelled out.
3) What true sentence has the form: "There are __ 0's, __ 1's, __ 2's, ..., in this sentence"?
[The 's' can be dropped if there is only one of any number.]
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #1 on: Jun 23rd, 2003, 3:50am » |
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Number three is a duplicate of this thread.
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #2 on: Aug 6th, 2003, 8:33pm » |
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This cool sentence has sixty-seven letters, nineteen syllables, and twelve words.
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #3 on: Aug 7th, 2003, 4:07am » |
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Nice. 
So "sixty-seven" is considered to be two words in English?
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #4 on: Aug 7th, 2003, 5:10pm » |
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Hyphenated words are always a little iffy on word counts. You can go either way. I would call this good.
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #5 on: Aug 9th, 2003, 12:15am » |
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I'm not sure if this is correct because I started to get tired of counting them again...then modifying, then counting, then modifying...and counting again to make sure the sentence was correct. Of course, I had to add some words that are not necessary to make it easier on myself.
This sentence has three a’s, one b, two c’s, two d’s, thirty-five e’s, eight f’s, two g’s, seven h’s, fifteen i’s, one j, one k, one l, one m, seven twenty-six n’s, sixteen o’s, one p, one q, five r’s, twenty-nine s’s, nineteen t’s, four u’s, seven v’s, six w’s, five x’s, four y’s, one z, and no sex tuition.
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #6 on: Aug 15th, 2003, 10:06pm » |
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There are 2 0s, 10 1s, 1 2, 1 3, 1 4, 1 5, 1 6, 1 7, 1 8, and 1 9 in this sentence.
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #7 on: Aug 15th, 2003, 11:42pm » |
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Quote:| There are 2 0s, 10 1s, 1 2, 1 3, 1 4, 1 5, 1 6, 1 7, 1 8, and 1 9 in this sentence. |
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I see two 2's. NvM. Scratch that But I believe you only have to change two numbers to make the sentence true.
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #8 on: Aug 16th, 2003, 12:39pm » |
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There are 1 0, 7 1s, 3 2s, 2 3s, 1 4, 1 5, 1 6, 2 7s, 1 8, and 1 9 in this sentence.
Ok, now I'm pretty sure it's right. Thanks for the correction. And, while we're at it...
on Aug 9th, 2003, 12:15am, Lightboxes wrote:
Is this shorthand for 726?
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Re: Sentence Construction
« Reply #9 on: Aug 16th, 2003, 10:06pm » |
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Oh man...at least someone checked it. I give up on that one. Thanks Snifit
Actually...This is what I've decided:
This AEEENNNNHIIOOSSTTUVX sentence has three a’s, one b, two c’s, two d’s, thirty-five e’s, eight f’s, two g’s, seven h’s, fifteen i’s, one j, one k, one l, one m, twenty-six n’s, sixteen o’s, one p, one q, five r’s, twenty-nine s’s, nineteen t’s, four u’s, seven v’s, six w’s, five x’s, four y’s, one z,
Once I become powerful and rule the world under my iron fist...I will make this word, "AEEENNNNHIIOOSSTTUVX" into an adjective that will have the same meaning as "long".
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