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I am. is the shortest sentance in the English language.
What is the longest?

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Originally posted by Quick
I am. is the shortest sentance in the English language.
What is the longest?
Perhaps:

The decimal expansion of pi is as follows: one, four, one, five, nine,...

There's no upper limit on the length of a sentence, as long as it's grammatical it's all good.

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Originally posted by bbarr
Perhaps:

The decimal expansion of pi is as follows: one, four, one, five, nine,...

There's no upper limit on the length of a sentence, as long as it's grammatical it's all good.
Marriage

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The shortest sentence in the English language is surely: Go!

The longest sentance is triple life imprisionment (not running concurrently)
😉

John Prescott must be in the running for the longest sentence!

Rhymester

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OK, where is my copy of the Complete William Faulkner?

For the longest time, I used to think Faulkner was German. Once I heard he was American, I assumed he wrote in Deutsch and was translated out of it. Once I heard that he wrote in English, I burned my copy of the Complete Faulkner.

Oh, right.

WAR SEZ: "Semantics -is- my bi---, or semantics -are- my bi---?"

-DeSpite

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Originally posted by misslead
Marriage
or in other words... "I do" is the longest sentance 😀

sorry, sorry. Bad joke..

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quick-
what is your other user id at RHP? 🙂

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Originally posted by Quick
I am. is the shortest sentance in the English language.
What is the longest?
James Joyce's "Ulysses" has a sentence that is 2,500 words long.

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Originally posted by zach918
quick-
what is your other user id at RHP? 🙂
If I wanted people to know that I'd have put it in my profile😉

I want to keep the 2 personas separate, simply so I can play different games with different people at different skill levels (1 blitz, 1 painfully thought out) and keep them totally separate.

I hope noone minds

However, if you want a game then I have 1 slot left open- challenge me.

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Originally posted by rwingett
James Joyce's "Ulysses" has a sentence that is 2,500 words long.
that's just silly! did he run of of dots? was there any other punctuation, or had they all gone on strike?

I'd be interested to read that. Like the "longest post", it's easy to do it, but is it a cohesive sentance that deserved to be that long?

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I think people have written books in the past entirely devoid of punctuation, but I imagine they're pretty unreadable. At school I remember reading a passage in German which was the beginning of the first sentence of a book (the entire book only contained 6 sentences!) Grammatically correct but very silly.

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Originally posted by Quick
that's just silly! did he run of of dots? was there any other punctuation, or had they all gone on strike?

I'd be interested to read that. Like the "longest post", it's easy to do it, but is it a cohesive sentance that deserved to be that long?
It is one run-on sentence. It isn't grammatically correct. He just omitted the periods and strung a lot of sentences together to acheive a "stream of conciousness" effect.