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(Message started by: Rob on Jul 25^th, 2002, 5:10pm)

Title: MED: Punctuation
Post by Rob on Jul 25^th, 2002, 5:10pm

Add punctuation to the following phrase to make something gramatically and logically coherent:

is is not not not is not is is is is not is not is it not

'is' is not 'not'. 'Not' is not 'is'. 'Is' is 'is'; 'Not' is 'not'. is it not?

Best I could come up with, lemme know.

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by Gareth Pearce on Jul 28^th, 2002, 6:22pm

i like my solution here
"is is not not not is not is is is" is not "is not", is it not?

maximal cheating :) (well i havent found anything with more cheating)

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by Brett Danaher on Jul 31^st, 2002, 6:37am

Here's an interesting alternative... Mine is a bit more Shakespearean, is it not? Ha - not it is. Anyway, here's my solution.

is ‘is not’ not ‘not is’? 'not is' is. ‘is’ is not ‘is not’, is it not?

Actually, the last question there might be a little funny, since usually when you ask "is it not?" you are trying to confirm a positive statement, not a negative one. But it basically works.

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by HappyMeal on Aug 9^th, 2002, 5:02am

I kinda took the same route as brett so mine doesn't make as much sense as Rob's, but here it is:

Is "is not" not "not is?" "Not is" is "is"; "is not" is "not," is it not?

I cheated in that everything in quotes I pretended to be a noun of some sort, which could be reworded like,

Is Brad not Steve? Steve is short; Brad is tall, is [he] not?

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by Mongolian_Beef on Aug 13^th, 2002, 9:48pm

Is is not not. Not is not is. Is is is. Not is not. Is it not?

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by Mongolian_Beef on Aug 13^th, 2002, 9:50pm

or to be more gramatically annoying.

"Is" is not "not." "Not" is not "is." "Is" is "is." "Not" is "not." Is it not?

Title: Maximal cheating
Post by Mark Lindsay on Aug 23^rd, 2002, 9:33am

on 07/28/02 at 18:22:04, Gareth Pearce wrote:

i like my solution here
"is is not not not is not is is is" is not "is not", is it not?

maximal cheating :) (well i havent found anything with more cheating)

Maximal cheating would be this:
"is is not not not is not is is is" is not "is not is it not"

:)

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by Robert Grimsley on Aug 30^th, 2002, 1:14pm

Similar question:

Punctuate the following:

it's over over over over over over over over over over

Answer below (scroll down)
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

It's a conversation between 2 people on a walkie-talkie or similar device where the protocol is to end each message with the word 'over'. 2 people who had been dating are breaking up. One party can't believe it, and asks for 2 confirmations:

Girl: "It's over. Over."
Guy: "Over? Over."
Girl: "Over! Over."
Guy: "Over?? Over."
Girl: "Over!! Over."

Title: Re: MED: Punctuation
Post by pottymouthed on Aug 30^th, 2002, 5:19pm

Something similar to above.
is is not not not is not is is is is not is not is it not

Is is. Not, not, not is not. Is, is, is, is not. Is it not?