I hate that that happens

The landlord of a pub called The Pig And Whistle asked a sign writer to make a new sign. When he saw it he thought that the words were too close together, so he said to the sign writer “I want more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle”.

Live footage of me reviewing a report that has a repeated word series like this:

You can create a sentence with an infinite number of "police"

Who polices the Police?

Police Police police Police.

Who polices the Police Police?

Police Police Police police Police Police.

And so on...

James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a greater effect on the teacher.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

In German the following is a completely valid sentence:

Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach.

Which translates to when flies fly behind flies, then flies follow flies. The same works for seals:

Wenn hinter Robben Robben Robben, robben Robben Robben nach.

“That that” can and probably should be replaced with “that which” in almost every instance it is used.

Edit: or “when that”

It annoys me so much when I feel I need to write a sentence like that that I go to great lengths to restructure sentences to avoid it.

...fuck

"That that" spoken are two different sounding words so it makes sense. When it goes from verbal to written and I see it, I will almost always try to rephrase things to avoid that combo. It just jumps out as totally wrong.

I always read "read" as "read" but now everything's different.

Have fun. Or an aneurysm, whichever:

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

I don't get it after the 2nd had, any chance someone else understands?

Sometimes we have a do do problem, too. I do do that, anyway.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!

english is dumb. why do we say "hands," but we don't say "foots"? why does "goose" become "geese," but "moose" doesn't become "meese"? why is "led" the past tense of "lead," but "red" is not the past tense of "read"? why don't "good" and "food" rhyme? LIGHT becomes LIT, fight becomes FOUGHT. peek becomes peeked, seek becomes SOUGHT

i could do this all day, but i willn't

Many of the at least 400 words that are technically both nouns and verbs depending on usage can form sentences of just repeating the word.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Echoes echoes echoes Echoes' echoes.

Mrs Missus misses misses' Missus.

Fly flies fly.

Tests "tests" tests tests Tests' test.

Reasons reason reasons.

English has its flaws, but I don't agree that that is one of them.

dass das das das dass da ersetzen kann ist falsch

translation: that "das" can replace "dass" there is wrong.

same shit different barbarians

What exactly is it that you do do?

• Had had had had
• OH MY GOD, HE HAS A STROKE!

Maybe I'm just grouchy today but how in the world does a word coming up twice in a row translate to a language being flawed? That seems like calling spelling "flawed" because letters come up twice in a row in a word.

“I would never! Not unless you were already having been going to do that!”

About the sign "Alpha and Bravo", the spaces between Alpha and and and and and Bravo are too large.

My friends and I call their dog "That" and we're always saying stuff like "that's that that!" when he comes down the stairs and such lol

I remember one time at r/peloton one of those tribalistic mildly-xenophobic nutcases told me, after sharing an article in spanish which had some ambiguous word, something to the effect that "spanish is the most confusing language in the world".

Yes, that genius told that. In english.

A comma should be after had had and before had had imo.

I present the present as a present to all those present in the present tense.

What makes this a "flaw"? Also, show me a " flawless" language (a real one, not loglang or whatever)

It's not the language's fault that you suck at using it

Meanwhile me getting yelled at for using ð and þ

Incoming James While John

*had had, has had

The horse's name was "had".

Nah, that's just you channeling your inner Psy: https://youtu.be/8dJyRm2jJ-U?si=a0JeSjBCsz1wRrkx

Have you heard the tragedy of pumping lemma? Have you heard the tragedy of the tragedy of pumping lemma? Have you heard the tragedy of the tragedy of the tragedy of pumping lemma?

I'm surprised that that is your criterion.

still not shi