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January 6, 2005
Self-Referential Sentences
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his sentence contradicts itself; well, no, actually it doesn't. - This sentence is going two-level with you.
- a preposition. This sentence ends in
- I am the meaning of this sentence.
- I am the thought you are now thinking.
- I am the set of neural firings taking place in your brain as you read the set of letters in this sentence and think about me.
- This inert sentence is my body, but my soul is alive, dancing in the sparks of your brain.
- Do you think anybody has ever had precisely this thought before?
- This sentence is a !!!! premature punctuator
- I don't care who wrote this sentence--whoever he is, he's a damned sexist!
- Cette phrase en francais est difficile a traduire en anglais.
- This sentence contains exactly threee erors.
Thanks to Douglas Hofstadter and his Godel, Escher, Back: an Etermal Golden Braid for launching the Self-Referential Sentence movement.
Also a nod to Dave Barry's Self-Referential Item of the Day.
*** Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. P.G. Wodehouse
--------Posted by witnit at January 6, 2005 5:59 AM
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