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Post by Coaster on Apr 19, 2013 1:18:43 GMT -5
Although the world's longest English-language sentence, which is held--with varying degrees of grammatical correctness--by at least four publications, was determined by the Guinness Book of World Records to be (at least) 1,288 words (according to Wikipedia, no less), I think it would be no small feat to see how long we, the Neopian Times Writers' Forum, could make our own, assuming that such a sentence is gramatically correct and uses no closing punctuation marks, namely, periods, question marks, and exclamation points; semicolons, which join two independent clauses in like manner to a period, are permitted, but as much as I wish you would use them sparingly, there really is nothing to stop you from using several in one post, as you can already do similar by using coordinating conjunctions like "but" or "as", despite the common recommendation that (clearly only for brevity's sake) you only try to link two independent clauses to begin with, but that is beside the point, so if you would like to get started, ... |
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Post by Pixie on Apr 19, 2013 15:56:32 GMT -5
The youthful red-haired girl was balancing precariously on a high elm bough in the dark, ancient, forest as frightful fantasies played through her head of the fate that would afflict her should she fail to locate her closest friend, Sandra's, missing family heirloom.
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Post by Lizica on Apr 20, 2013 0:33:35 GMT -5
"so if you would like to get started," ...
...we can give this (rather ingenious and wonderfully pretentious) idea a whirl, although I foresee the possibility of this game swiftly becoming short-lived and falling behind into the depths of the "Games and Interactive" board pages in spite of the fact that that outcome appears contrary to the object of the game in the first place; but in the event of continuation, I also foresee the possibility of distinctly horrifying any and all sticklers for the English language, as we are invariably due to make slight grammatical errors somewhere in this Run-on Sentence To End All Run-on Sentences, but perhaps that is not such a terrible crime if we take into account a few things, such as...
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Post by Yoyti on Apr 20, 2013 23:48:49 GMT -5
"such as..."
...the potentially immense number of people partaking in this project of considerably great magnitude, which may range from as few as three (Coaster, Lizica, and I) to as many as there are members on this forum -- a number which tallies at two thousand three hundred fifty two, and contains people of such variety, and whose first-learned language may not necessarily be the language in which this sentence is being written, that it is inconceivable for someone to not make a mistake such as I most assuredly have in this portion of the sentence, however much I have strived not to, although I will concede that such errors may be forgiven on the grounds that...
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Post by Robyn on May 6, 2013 6:43:50 GMT -5
"such errors may be forgiven on the grounds that..."
...Robyn has returned, and her glorious regime will no doubt shine rays upon rays of benevolent light onto the future of this forum, therefore ensuring a healthy future for not only this thread but hypothetically all the threads housed on this website and all its subsidiary affiliates, which at the present moment need not be named, but rest assured they are on all of our minds at this great hour of triumph, which of course is made even greater due to the fact that...
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Post by icon on May 6, 2013 17:15:51 GMT -5
"due to the fact that..."
...this thread itself exists, for I must say that I am rather taken aback by the fact that never before have I seen a thread which attempts to achieve such an unusual and creative goal (though this may be in part due to my own ignorance), the strangeness of which is not, however, entirely unjustified when one considers that though there is, in theory, a finite number of words in the English language, these words can in fact be compiled in a nigh-infinite number of ways in an infinite number of sentences, meaning that one who participates in this game merely has to string together any series of words which does not necessarily have to be logical, provided that is syntactically correct with the posts immediately preceding it, and therefore...
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Post by Yoyti on May 6, 2013 18:00:14 GMT -5
"and therefore..."
allows for shifts in narration, such as this one, which changed the focus of this ever-lengthening sentence from Icon, a Mini Mod Minion, to Yoyti, a Super Supporter, which is, in point of fact, one of several narration shifts which has included narrators such as Coaster, Lizica, Yoyti, Robyn and Icon--a point which raises a further element: lists which allow for near infinite strings of generally accepted sequences of things such as colors (red, blue, green, yellow, brown, violet, mauve, grey, gray, and so on), shapes (hexagon, pentagon, cardioid, and so on) and even items out of which you can make lists (colors, shapes, items out of which you can make lists, and so on), which in and of itself allows for nested lists; a point which might raise the question of nested sentences...
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Post by Coaster on Feb 14, 2014 1:42:56 GMT -5
"might raise the question of nested sentences..."
...to the astute reader, who may or may not have stopped paying attention to the duration of this sentence quite some time ago, despite the obviously superior premise when compared to other games that have their share of limelight before dying off like farmed cattle, which is not to say that games are at all organic creatures or edible by carnivorous or omnivorous creatures, but rather that they tend to fluctuate in terms of attention given, yet ultimately are forgotten, as some may testify who were around the forum in years past, and still remember said days--a likely consideration, given that...
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Post by Mostly Harmless (flufflepuff) on Feb 17, 2014 7:52:34 GMT -5
"given that..."
the mysterious and all-encompassing force known as life and other tasks may be at work, but nobody could be bothered to pay any attention to it while tending to the games boards, which, as we all know, are akin to plants in that they require nurturing to stay alive and to not be buried deep underground underneath newer plants, but unlike plants can be revived, and in some cases, zombified, though not in all cases, in which case, RUNNING WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, but have no fear, please; here is what to do in case of a zombie games board apocalypse:
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