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i'm a syntactician. that means i study absurd sentences for a living. these are the best of the best.

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May
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The bread jumped out.
— Saanich / Turner (2012)
Mar
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Now act so manly that you drive them away, so that we don’t lack all good things.
— Old Icelandic / Rögnvaldsson (1998)
Nov
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I drove a team of horses to your mother.
— Blackfoot / Bliss (2011)
Jul
16th
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My koalas were not misplaced by the luggage handlers.
— English / Potsdam (1996)
Jul
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Don’t sod off right away now, man, don’t spoil things!
— Dutch / Rooryck and Postma (2007)
Jun
3rd
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I don’t like the ash cloud
— Icelandic (well played, sir)
Nov
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Mostly he went there for the walruses.
— Old English
Oct
25th
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The plan was to go fetch two hamsters from them.
— Papiamentu / Kouwenberg and Lefebvre (2007)
Sep
1st
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In this way, this girl gave birth to a bear puppy.
— Quechua / Faller (2002)
Jul
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…and they vexed them with torture, that they should eat bacon against God’s law.
— Old English / Taylor and Pintzuk (2010 DiGS)