Longest Coherent Sentance

dood k first it's a sentEnce and second, surely we would be more interested in the longest clause possible as a sentence can just be an infinite number of clauses

OK, for Americans, Germans and other who struggle with understanding "irony", the Sarge has provided a master class above with what must be the most ironic post on thudgame.com!

Congrats Sarge! That's gotta be worth points so 50 points to Sgt L!

Well, not exactly - English 101: All sentences must contain a subject and an action verb (minimum) or a subject, a passive (linking) verb and an object within the predicate. Clauses are lovely and help pad out the length (you'll notice politicians are really good at this; Tony Blair was the master at piling clause on top of clause in ever increasing levels of complexity then coming directly back to the point - confused journalists to no end ) but have to be supported by the basic sentence structure.

BTW dibbler, your joke about the grannies has gone round the world several times since posting - not sure why it's in the "bad" jokes thread

no way, *goes green with jealesy*

What does coherent mean, 'cause if it means not rambling on then anyone could do it, they'd just need the will, which i probably have but if you mean something like meaning something random like going oh where was i alot then would that be coherent, and what does coherent mean ,is it something to do with not rambling on, like actually talking about something, 'cause well i think i may have just repeated what i just said but that's not the point, 'cause well, i'm losing the plot but well, ahem, have i made my point 'cause i hope so 'cause i'm not typing that out again.

huh?

that being said, it is sentence and I mean I think perhaps titles should be spelt well even though in all probability it was a simple typo. However I make a point of telling the foreigners when they make a mistake because to my entire family english is a second language ('cept sis') so i know too well how people do make systematic errors and english speakers (not culturaly multilingual...a fortunately declining trend) often do not corect them..so not only are their errors probably due to not knowing, but if I don't correct their english chances are no-one else will and then they will go through life speaking/writting english incorrectly. Note for instance that in my PM's with wiz, I check my englsih carefully (most of the time).

this is true. However, (so much better a word than "but") I mean the tense can have a temporal sub clause, every noun can have a descriptive sub clause or, if nothing else, a string of adjectives as can verbs (only of course they have adverbs) plus every clause known to man even clauses filling in back ground history:

"the quick brown fox, who had previously been persued by hunters, who in turn were being hassled by anti-hunting activists*, who were members of greenpeace, since they had perviously engaged in activities not in compliance with animal cruelty laws, since his pelt was highly valued and hence was of the leaping and jumping persuasion upon envisaging a laggard hound of dark colouration, jumped over the lazy dog."

see, here I made a clause describing the subject, the subject of which was described in a clause with yet another subject which was further described. And in this way we could build on for ever and this could even be applied to nearly any part of speech. Pterry resists the urge through the novel use of foot notes...I myslef owe my love of footnotes entirely to Pterry and manages to pack about half an essay on determinism into one in an attempt to escape the word count.

nopt even mentioning clauses that start with hords like "however" "even though" or "since", "because", "due to" ect.

"the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." is a famouse sentence since it contains every letter in the enlgish language and is hence used by therapists to examine hand writing for flaws in any letter.

*FIGHT THE POWER!!

What Lee meant, was you correcting my english and in the same sentAnce using slang such as k and dood.

Also use as many clauses as you want, if you don't then your sentence will have a constant maximum length.

yes I am aware..it's what we call the look of abject innocence...it's a media device for making it clear that the person id trying to act innocent and/or unaware but is...usually this is done with a look of dejection and cuteness with open eyes and slow sad blonks...gringind one toe into the ground helps too...I'm sure you're aware of it. anyway it was a further example of irony..I was pretending not to be aware that I had made mistakes thus making lee's claim toward irony even more ironyy (another example of irony form the simpsons the correct word of course is "ironic")

Urm. Oops:)

When it comes to determining what the meaning of such a descriptionative sense as the word 'sentence' would be you'd first have to understand the complexity which IS a sentence and which lee has so rightly clarified for us in terms of verbs, nouns and other such gramatical terms which decidedly confirm my aforementioned supposition of the term 'sentence' when taken in the literary sense of sentence formation with regards to everyday sentence structure in the norm of society and its' popular distinctions when discussing the contextual derivative of such a completely and utterly novel description of even the idea of a sentence as something completely made up for the sole purpose of making something like the concept of words and type [that in itself is completely made up by humans] more manageable and therefore less daunting to the human mind due to its' constant drive to control and facilitate the environment around it to suit its' own image and therefore create, in a sense, a paradise for itself for which it gains credit in the social world as it has thus become a master of its' true identity as well as its' future and purpose which ideally could be thought of as a way to control the world around you, bend your will to affect others around you and therefore create in itself the sense of which the idea of a sentence creates in the human mind as something structured and concievably not too daunting for the layman to contemplate andcontrol as only a sentence could be.

should i continue or is that ok?

sentences of this caliber w\by which of course I mean length, seeing as so often quntity and quality are confused, are often in fact the object of scorn when being used in order to present an argument or discussion on a particular topic which is usualy marked by some form of supervisor sincetheir magnitude and hence inherent amphibolies and ambiguities, make it difficult to eek out true meaning form them which in tunr leads to a por mark which obviously leads you down a roasd which i myslef am alas travelling in maths not tthat this is the point but as an interesting aside i thought it would lend valuabe insight into the situation under which i am writing my point which i have not yet reached so alaw me to introduce it by saying that it is indeed an odd habit to metaphorocally award people especially Sergeants like me for utilising their natural skills or crafts of the realm of infamy, which in this case manifest themselves in the form of a religious anathema of all things puntuactive, which is of course a play of the morphology of the word action which becomes active, which while a humorous integration I hope, does not serve the continuation of my point regarding the metaophorical rewarding of my lack of punctuation which is at best a bad habit which inhibits the proper purveyance of meaning and speaking from a logic student point of veiw makes validating an argument unin\maginably difficult even though I can annaklyse political statements as a matter fo course which is not to say that should we attempt the construction of enourmous sentence structures as alas not succintly but noetheless aptly described by ook above say without the repetition of a single word that the rewards would be unfounded, but just s\as this status quo est it merely strikes me as odd, not to mention that this allows sentences sooo long that the spam filter my ancient opponent would find itsself roused from peaceful slumber to confront me yet again which would be unpleasant whereas while disallowing the reuse of words would limit the english language posts to at the outside the length of the harry potter septogy, practically limits one to only a few lines while this post has already exceeded ook's weak 11 lines primarily though the use of the word "while" so you see, really ths state of affairs cannot go on since i assure you not masny peple willa ctualy read this post and I shallenge all commers to rpove me wrong eb\ven though this is in fact a dumb idea given that the chances are that anyone who did read this far will have intended to finish readig the padding afforded me by the use of future perfect continuous tense which is of course quite an expression in english sof or the sake of no chewing band width i shall leave you onl;y with the message above and the obvious claim that clearly ook's was not long enough so he beter get back here and do a better job

sentences of this caliber w\by which of course I mean length, seeing as so often quntity and quality are confused, are often in fact the object of scorn when being used in order to present an argument or discussion on a particular topic which is usualy marked by some form of supervisor sincetheir magnitude and hence inherent amphibolies and ambiguities, make it difficult to eek out true meaning form them which in tunr leads to a por mark which obviously leads you down a roasd which i myslef am alas travelling in maths not tthat this is the point but as an interesting aside i thought it would lend valuabe insight into the situation under which i am writing my point which i have not yet reached so alaw me to introduce it by saying that it is indeed an odd habit to metaphorocally award people especially Sergeants like me for utilising their natural skills or crafts of the realm of infamy, which in this case manifest themselves in the form of a religious anathema of all things puntuactive, which is of course a play of the morphology of the word action which becomes active, which while a humorous integration I hope, does not serve the continuation of my point regarding the metaophorical rewarding of my lack of punctuation which is at best a bad habit which inhibits the proper purveyance of meaning and speaking from a logic student point of veiw makes validating an argument unin\maginably difficult even though I can annaklyse political statements as a matter fo course which is not to say that should we attempt the construction of enourmous sentence structures as alas not succintly but noetheless aptly described by ook above say without the repetition of a single word that the rewards would be unfounded, but just s\as this status quo est it merely strikes me as odd, not to mention that this allows sentences sooo long that the spam filter my ancient opponent would find itsself roused from peaceful slumber to confront me yet again which would be unpleasant whereas while disallowing the reuse of words would limit the english language posts to at the outside the length of the harry potter septogy, practically limits one to only a few lines while this post has already exceeded ook's weak 11 lines primarily though the use of the word "while" so you see, really ths state of affairs cannot go on since i assure you not masny peple willa ctualy read this post and I shallenge all commers to rpove me wrong eb\ven though this is in fact a dumb idea given that the chances are that anyone who did read this far will have intended to finish readig the padding afforded me by the use of future perfect continuous tense which is of course quite an expression in english sof or the sake of no chewing band width i shall leave you onl;y with the message above and the obvious claim that clearly ook's was not long enough so he beter get back here and do a better job

515 wods...thats the length of my ring of gyges essay

well it doesn't count cos you made spelling mistakes

well by your logic neither does that comment, but I couldn't check it 'cos I had to be a physics at the time and was rushing to get there.

well don't complain to me about it

I see what you're trying to drag me into

and hes doing a pretty good job

no he isn;t

He is... notice you two had about... oh, 7 messages after one another?

Incidentally, my 100th post:)