Thursday, August 19, 2010

Confusing Confucius

Dear Friendgroup,

Summer always moves quickly, where did it go? It's like playing tag with a dolphin. All I can remember is that I went to work almost every day, spent a lot of time in the car, saw a lot of friends, did some reading and played a sufficient amount of settlers.

One of my favorite nights, however, happened while Aaron and Dave were into town last week. I introduced them to the grammatically correct sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" (wikipedia if you want to know). We went on to find other great sentences such as "John, while James had had "had", had had "had had", "had had" had had a better impression on the teacher." I could see what everyone was thinking

Dave : "AAAAAAA that's hystERical! I'm going to throw up!"

Aaron : "How Bizarre!"

Alex : "I love grammar!"

Ambitiously, we agreed to make a better sentence. Whoever discovered the "confusing, confused, confusion, Confucius, Confucian" relationship deserves a gold star, and we eventually created :

Confusion confused confusing Confucius's confused Confucians; can fusion confusions confuse Confucius's confused Confucians?

Hmm, reading it by myself isn't as funny, but I think I needed a good laugh that night, and I haven't been that giddy in a while.

with sincere confusion,

Thomas