02 Feb 03
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
04 Feb 03
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Originally posted by zach918If I wanted people to know that I'd have put it in my profile😉
quick-
what is your other user id at RHP? 🙂
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.
04 Feb 03
Originally posted by rwingettthat's just silly! did he run of of dots? was there any other punctuation, or had they all gone on strike?
James Joyce's "Ulysses" has a sentence that is 2,500 words long.
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?
04 Feb 03
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.
06 Feb 03
Originally posted by QuickIt 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.
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?