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Badly-written sentences
This came up because my co-worker is puzzling over a document that contains several sentences that make no sense. After he double-checked with me that indeed they made no sense and it wasn't just him, I was inevitably reminded of my favorite badly-written sentence of all time. (Which I think I might have posted about before, a couple of years ago, but can't find right now.)
This sentence was so powerful that I read it back in 1997 and still remember it.
It's from a short, 4-paragraph item in Science News about research using sound waves to investigate head injuries, and the sentence in question is the next-to-last one. It reads:
God bless 'em!
Citation info, in case you don't believe me:
Wu, Corinna. "Sound waves track head injuries." Science News 152.n24 (Dec 13, 1997): 380(1).
This sentence was so powerful that I read it back in 1997 and still remember it.
It's from a short, 4-paragraph item in Science News about research using sound waves to investigate head injuries, and the sentence in question is the next-to-last one. It reads:
So far, the researchers have tested the method on a fake head--a skull filled with gelatin, cadavers, and several healthy volunteers.
God bless 'em!
Citation info, in case you don't believe me:
Wu, Corinna. "Sound waves track head injuries." Science News 152.n24 (Dec 13, 1997): 380(1).
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I'm a member of the Society of the Dutch Language, and in their monthly magazine is always a large section dedicated to sentences like this one, that they picked out of newspapers, brochures and what not. It's my favorite section of the whole magazine!