Re: Requesting some challenging sentences

On 10/29/05, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
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> But on the original subject:
>
> http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0112C&L=CONLANG&P=R32912&I=-3
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> Now this is indeed challenging!
Hm... this reminds me of another nifty
nonsense passage, this one devised
as a challenge for an actor's power
of quick memorization:

"So she went into the garden to pick a
cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie of; and a
she-bear, coming up the street, put her head
into the shop, and said 'Do you sell any
soap?' So she died, and he very imprudently
married the barber; and the powder fell out
of the counsellor's wig, and poor Mrs.
Mackay's puddings were quite entirely spoilt;
and there were present the Garnelies, and the
Goblilies, and the Picninnies, and the Great
Pangendrum himself, with the little round
button at top, and they played at the ancient
game of 'Catch who catch can,' till the
gunpowder ran out of the heels of their
boots."

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/208.html


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