Posted By: chomer () on 'Humor'
Title:     Re: had had had had....
Date:      Fri Oct 14 17:58:00 2011

> Copied from Wikipedia:
> 
> "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better
> effect 
> on the teacher" is an English sentence used to demonstrate lexical ambiguity
> and the necessity of punctuation, which serves as a substitute for the 

No, tak zrovna ta "nutnost" interpunkce je totalni nesmysl.
Ale jinak pekny :-)

> intonation, stress and pauses found in human speech. In human 
> information processing research, the sentence has been used to show how 
> readers depend on punctuation to give sentences meaning, especially in the 
> context of scanning across lines of text.
> 
> It refers to two students, James and John, and their answers to an English 
> test, concerning a man who, in the past, had a cold:
> 
> John wrote "The man had a cold" which is incorrect grammatically,
> 
> James wrote "The man had had a cold" which is correct grammatically.
> 
> Since James' answer was right, it had had a better effect on the teacher, 
> thus the sentence.
> 
> The sentence can be understood more clearly by adding punctuation and 
> quotation marks:
> 
> James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a 
> better effect on the teacher. 
Chomer

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