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If you were asked to write a sentence completely nonsense, what would it be? (Gibberish Sentence)
We sometimes come across some sentences in English that are totally strange and make us wonder how can someone write something so meaningless. In my opinion, the sentences might be written by an illiterate person or maybe because of the writer's lack of attention at the moment of writing.
Here's my example sentence:
<em>TV shows on the radio are very good. (*)</em>
The writer might have wanted to write any other words but <s>radio.</s>
The result was something strange, which made it difficult to understand.
Edited: (Here are two better examples of gibberish sentences)
<em>*TV shows on radio are lazy. </em>
<em>*Food is sitting while the weather is flying.</em>
What meaningless sentence would you give us as an example?
Thanks
2020年7月1日 16:26
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This discussion has reminded me of Noam Chomsky’s famous sentence, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Chomsky used this sentence to show that a sentence can be grammatically correct yet nonsensical, which means that syntax (grammar) and semantics (meaning) are distinct. He compared it with the sentence “Furiously sleep ideas green colorless.” This latter sentence is neither meaningful nor grammatical.
2020年7月1日
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I don't think your example is gibberish at all. It's not the most precise English. But it is certainly possible to listen to the audio of something televised. It's pretty common for live events.
2020年7月1日
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A famous case springs to my mind. There was an internet meme that did the rounds in certain parts of the Web several years ago. If you wanted to post something incomprehensible (maybe to make fun of someone else's incomprehensibility), you would write:
<em>Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?</em>
It's absolute gibberish on a grammatical level, but the 'joke' was to write this exact sentence and act like it was meaningful. Apparently, it originated as a sincere (but massively garbled) comment on an internet forum. The context of the discussion was video games, and it's believed that the comment was intended to convey something like:
<em>Has any video game company ever really gone so far as to make a game look so realistic (as a previous post in the discussion described)?</em>
2020年7月1日
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There is nothing bad about any of those sentences, as has already been pointed out-
Sentence 1. you do have TV shows broadcast on the radio. It is very common for this to happen.
Sentence 2.means the writer thinks that only sitting or standing in a room with a microphone to record a radio show, even if the show is also a television show, is lazy, the actors should be actually acting in their opinion.
Sentence 3 = food is sitting = food is not being eaten, while the weather is flying = the (good weather) is flying by fast (flying)
The food is sitting not being eaten and the wether to enjoy the food is passing away (flying) by quickly.
2020年7月1日
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An unintentional pun (no offence!):
"I'd like to polish my Polish"
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