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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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Nov
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Don’t you be having no more of ’em bagels now, son.
— English / Mastop (2005)
Oct
20th
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Come on, get yourself wings, come on, become a bird.
— Maori / Polinsky (2001)
Oct
17th
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Come on, old woman, try and hit the fox with the stick.
— Even / Malčukov (2001)
Sep
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It is a great thing for struggling youth to have a three-syllabled name with a proparxyton accent.
— English / Garrett (2004/9)
May
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Who in the forest is going to get infected from wood?
— Russian / Kwon (2009)
Apr
28th
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Taro was adversely affected by Hanako starting a new religion on him
— Japanese / Kubo (1992)
Mar
31st
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The hyena cut the rope with the knife.
— Chichewa / Baker (1985)
Mar
13th
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Mary promised Pepi that they would wash each other
— Kapampangan / live from field methods class!
Feb
17th
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so yeah, things have been a bit slow.  been assigned a lot of Chomsky, and let’s face it, he isn’t exactly full of humor.

Jan
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I and thou and our two sons, he said to his wazirs and grandees.
— Burushaski / Johannessen (1998)