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4561  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting world's longest English sentence sans punctuations, repeating words, .. on: November 09, 2016, 09:37:48 PM
I'm actually quite enjoying it.  It is providing a fantastic diversion from work, although I really should be completing the solution/design/code audits I've been asked to do.

If we happen to win the award from Guinness for the longest sentence?  That's just icing on the cake!

Yes, we, not I, hence you can all call foul if I, only, take the million-dollar award (not reward), or am I thinking of some different enterprise offering up such?  Roll Eyes

Back to editing the prose while I ponder what the fuck are solution/design/code audits.

To date: <read posts above to catch up on latest annotation notes> <all edits are welcomed, with us having the ability to fix any fuckups>

Down swampy Louisiana way there dwelt an iniquitous necromancer named Toumura Maleficent Vurotia Vromira Morte whom I serendipitously thrice encountered who spent all her waking hours focused on raising long lost corrupted spirits from their waterlogged burial chambers steadfastly believing she might stumble upon abhorrent factualisms regarding omnipotent artifacts which shall more than likely reward herself untold and overwhelming powers concerning subjugation over earthly equinal lifeforms created by terrifyingly sadistic demons formerly residing among mere mortal ponies forever grazing across open fertile fields filled with golden wheat traditionally utilized in developing procedures for discovering individuals manifesting antidisestablishmentarianism tendencies within largely liberal congregations around sprawling developments alongside meandering natural rivers flowing southerly verses northerly similarly like River Nile past multitudinous bustling metropolises including Luxor previously known as the Ancient Egyptian city of Waset or Greek Thebes once having had myriad hieroglyphs depicting femmes fatales mayhaps said seductresses hastening its ultimate demise when ...

https://wordcounttools.com/ <I believe that I have the skillsets to perhaps bring it up to a 150-word count via [vitually] adding adjectives alone - I only need 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 more words to achieve said goal - JUST BROKE THROUGH THE 1,000-CHARACTER WALL (sans spaces)>

Words   151
Characters (including spaces)   1188
Characters (without spaces)   1038
4562  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting world's longest English sentence sans punctuations, repeating words, .. on: November 09, 2016, 09:20:03 PM
I would use "reward" instead of "award" here.

Study, and you shall be rewarded.
Why are you rewarding the child for misbehaving?

I award you with the gold medal for winning the race.
Leonardo DiCaprio received the award for best actor in a leading role.

Another way to look at is that a reward is given regardless of whether or not you sought it.  For example, "When I changed the channel, I was rewarded with my favorite episode of the show."  The show was still being broadcast regardless of whether or not you watched it.  An award is not given to you unless you seek it out.  You can't win the award for best actor if you're not an actor.

"reward" it is. I know I've checked out the two a few times before, but it's one of them terms that if not completely ingrained, must be revisited, opting this time to ask the community for help. Thanks, JB.

Hey, what's your opinion thus far about this crazy endeavor?
4563  Other / Politics & Society / Re: TRUMP WINS on: November 09, 2016, 08:03:54 PM




Disclosure: I'm not a Hillary fan.

In the news: The border between Canada and the US is experiencing a major, major logjam as US citizens are exiting the States while wannabe Canadian comedians are trying to enter upon realizing that there's a wealth of material now and subsequently available to broaden their schtick catering to a US audience, given they've met their match in trying to continue the learning curve so to make funny of Canada's well-versed PM, leaving only a small handful of Carlinesque comedians behind able to make sense of it all.
4564  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting world's longest English sentence sans punctuations, repeating words, .. on: November 09, 2016, 07:38:24 PM
Learnt still does not fit in the context.

"She spent all her waking hours focused on..." implies a time (which might be our past) that is her own present.  What is she focused on?  She's focused on raising spirits.  She's focused on believing she might learn something.  In other words, she's engaging in an act (focusing) believing her focus will attain knowledge (future event) from the spirits she has yet to raise (again implying she cannot learn the knowledge until this future event has occurred).  This is further supported by the next part of the sentence, which states that the attainment of this knowledge would confer upon her (again at some point in the future) untold powers.

As for how I came up with the name... yeah, I googled "necromancer name generator".  Then I took a couple of the names it spat out for female necromancers and put them together.  They offered "Malefic" but I decided I wanted to use Maleficent instead.

Back to "learn" it is, bud, thanking you for the well-thought-out explanation(s) which eludes me. I just realized that all this fuss about "learnt" may have been for not given that's an easy candidate to replace with a longer word if not with two words, increasing character or word count (def. char. ct. if the latter), respectively.

We cross-post, hence you not seeing my latest amendment to the post above:

<"artifacts which shall definitively confer upon herself untold" was changed to"artifacts which shall more than likely award herself untold" - QUESTION: award or reward?>

Please advise.

Name generator. Damn, I wish I would've thunk that first.  Cry

EDIT: Changed "learn" to "stumble upon", thanks to freeing up "upon" a tad earlier. We even gained a word in the process.

MAJOR EDIT: Even though I like her name, I believe it's to the best interest of limiting the she-necromancer to just two words - first and last name - expressing such in the official rules (which we'll be instrumental in penning) when future wordsmiths attempt to top our submission in GWR. Otherwise, what'll stop someone in creating a name consisting of hundreds, if not thousands of words within the rest of a copy consisting of only a few other terms, e.g.: Three-thousand-word-name ate pancakes for breakfast. = 3,004 words.
4565  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ CRYPTO-CITY.COM ] Get Points for activities. Trade it for Crypto currencies on: November 09, 2016, 06:34:53 PM

"' amazing! Crypto-city still has the lights."

Yes, amazing...

Says Chantha Owen Lueung, cleverly commenting on the funnies opposed to ever addressing accusations, i.e. getting barred from trading on legacy exchanges here in the US, a common tactic by nefarious actors in the cryptocurrency space. HAHAHA & Chuckles
4566  Other / Off-topic / Re: Flat Earth on: November 09, 2016, 06:30:25 PM
Quote
can I offer you a nice glass of liquid di-hydrogen monoxide to drink?

Can I have one with a dash of salt and wedge of lime, all under a tiny umbrella poked through an olive? After yesterday I once again took up drinking, but since I've been out of the loop for so long, I'm trying out new bevs to see what this 56-year-old enjoys.
4567  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 05:47:07 PM
Hmmm... I don't think 'learnt' works properly in the context of the sentence.  The sentence begins in the present tense, "...there dwells...", "...who spends...", "...on raising...".  The phrase, "...I serendipitously encountered...", should be rewritten in the present tense as well, "I serendipitously encounter..."

As for naming our mysterious necromancer, I offer the following: Toumura Maleficent Vurotia Vromira Morte.

My bad, for I thought there wasn't going to be any math involved in this project, but just realized how much time needs to be spent here.

jonnybravo0311, your input may have turned out very valuable because I, and perhaps others, now feel that this first-person narrative should be penned in the past tense ('dwell' becomes 'dwelt' et al.) since most of it is already alluding to past events (couple hundred years ago; ancient). Easily accomplishable, given there's no rules saying we can't in this exercise. That said, would 'learnt' then be acceptable (opposed to 'learned')?

Where [or how] the fuck did you come up with Toumura Maleficent Vurotia Vromira Morte? I'll tell you what, I plug it in as a placeholder till it's fully accepted or changed.

Any changes that I, personally, feel needs reviewing, I'll highlighted the purple prose element(s) ever so slightly with #FDF5E6.

Question: Assuming there's not yet a word to describe this undertaking, what neologism would suffice? Paying homage to William Faulkner (revisit if not versed), I suggest that somehow "faulkner" should makeup part of the yet-to-be-determined term. (that should give you brainiacs something worthwhile to work on - remember, the hope is to get this in the Guinness World Records, thus a term describing it would be prudent) Or, we could pay homage to Mark Twain or Gabo (http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-autumn-of-patriarch-by-gabriel.html), both also known for their lenghtly sentences, the latter most fasinating of the three [I believe].

My thoughts wrapped within < > below the stats [in bold].

Plug in the following text if you want a good laugh as its read aloud: http://ttsreader.com/  Grin

Down swampy Louisiana way there dwelt an iniquitous necromancer named Toumura Maleficent Vurotia Vromira Morte I serendipitously encountered who spent all her waking hours focused on raising long lost corrupted spirits from their waterlogged burial chambers steadfastly believing she might stumble upon abhorrent factualisms regarding omnipotent artifacts which shall more than likely reward herself untold and overwhelming powers concerning subjugation over earthly equinal lifeforms created by terrifyingly sadistic demons formerly residing among mere mortal ponies forever grazing across open fertile fields filled with golden wheat normally used during developing procedures for discovering individuals manifesting antidisestablishmentarianism tendencies within largely liberal congregations around sprawling developments alongside meandering natural rivers flowing southerly verses northerly similarly like River Nile past multitudinous bustling metropolises including Luxor previously known as the Ancient Egyptian city of Waset or Greek Thebes having had myriad hieroglyphs depicting femmes fatales mayhaps hastening its ultimate demise when ...

https://wordcounttools.com/ <I believe that I have the skillsets to perhaps bring it up to a 150-word count via [vitually] adding adjectives alone - I only need 8 7 6 5 4 more words to achieve said goal - JUST BROKE THROUGH THE 1,000-CHARACTER WALL (sans spaces)>

Words   146
Characters (including spaces)   1148
Characters (without spaces)   1003


<"such that" (two words now available) was replaced with "steadfastly believing">

<"tombs" was replaced with "burial chambers", adding a word>

<"artifacts which shall definitively confer upon herself untold" was changed to"artifacts which shall more than likely award herself untold" - QUESTION: award or reward?>

<"untold and" could be deleted, once again freeing "and">

<"but not" was replaced with "verses" - please confirm usage - now freeing up both words for later use>

<NOTE: the word 'a' has yet to be used, with the current usage of "an" easily replaced with 'a' if foregoing "iniquitous" or replacing such with a non-vowel sounding adjective; EDIT: I just found the "a" but easily removed it (it was in front of "procedure" now plural - please verify if copy still makes sense) >
4568  Other / Politics & Society / Philippines' Duterte congratulates Trump, wants to work together on: November 09, 2016, 08:55:15 AM
theymos, lock the forum, for it won't be able to handle the influx of crazies: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-reaction-philippines-idUSKBN13412N
4569  Other / Off-topic / Re: Flat Earth on: November 09, 2016, 06:07:22 AM
Okay, everybody, it's time to inform you all that BADecker, BobLawblaw and I have been keeping a secret. Here's the video explaining what's going to happen starting next week: NASA confirms Earth will experience 15 days of darkness in November 2016.

Even though it's on YouTube, ergo it must be true, the first two of B,B&B (I'm the third B) will avow its true unless opting to not publicly announce, which is their prerogative. Be prepared! Get batteries for your flashlights.
4570  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donald Trump Vs Hilary Clinton on: November 09, 2016, 05:45:33 AM
With the exception of one mention of the legalization of weed in three states, Google now thinks that it's to my best interest to no longer plaster its news page with election coverage as it has since early this morning. It's almost like Google is was in Hillary's camp, but since that camp is just about to concede to the Trump's camp, Google can't handle the pain any longer so they tweaked their algos so that I now see the Dow down 750 points and Bitcoin is going up, and I don't even have Bitcoin as one of my alerts on my currently login thingy.
4571  Other / Off-topic / Crafting world's longest English sentence sans punctuations, repeating words, .. on: November 09, 2016, 04:44:53 AM
<please read and point out any grammatical errors need addressing, for I've amended the shit outta it>

<"_ _ _" is where an adjective is needed>

<the preposition 'to' is currently available>

<I opted for the prose to be penned in first-person, hence introducing 'I'>

<"learn" is now "learnt", unless it's voiced to be improper usage>

<the necromancer's yet-to-be-chosen name could consist of a first[, middle] and last name>

<the current usage of 'and' can easily be deleted (other minor modifications required) so to be used elsewhere; same true for 'of' upon further review>

<'via' would be a good word to incorp>

<I'm surprised 'when' had yet to be used - added now, subject to removal>

<unless I'm mistaken, 'in' can be extracted for future use if the beginning is rewritten as "Down swampy Louisiana why there dwells ..." - fuck it, I'll just do, where it can always be changed later>

<'in' is now available>

<'an' may be extractable for subsequent reuse>

<apologies if I inadvertently bastardized prior well-thought-out submissions - please state if anything things to be written in stone due to whatever expressed reasoning>

Down swampy Louisiana way there dwells an iniquitous necromancer named _____ I serendipitously encountered who spends all her waking hours focused on raising long lost corrupted spirits from their waterlogged tombs such that she might learnt abhorrent factualisms regarding omnipotent artifacts which shall definitively confer upon herself untold and overwhelming powers concerning subjugation over earthly equinal lifeforms created by terrifyingly sadistic demons formerly residing among mere mortal ponies forever grazing across open fertile fields filled with golden wheat normally used during developing a procedure for discovering individuals projecting antidisestablishmentarianism tendencies within largely liberal congregations around sprawling developments alongside meandering rivers flowing southerly but not northerly similarly like River Nile past numerous cities including Luxor previously known as the Ancient Egyptian city of Waset or Greek Thebes having myriad hieroglyphs depicting femmes fatales mayhaps hastening its ultimate demise when ...

<I opted for the archaic adverb "mayhaps" in lieu of 'perhaps', which just so happens coincides with the overall quasi-bygone days theme>

<please feel free to edit what I just added after the Ancient Egyptian city of>

https://wordcounttools.com/

Words   138
Characters (including spaces)   1057
Characters (without spaces)   920

<my "_____" counted as 5 characters)>
4572  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 04:18:20 AM
Miss Keihanaikukauakahihulihe'ekahaunaele

Hoston, we have a problem! alert depicted fittingly in red, and as I've already stated the use of 's would've been in play if used where I initially thought it would work.

Giving a [long] name somewhere in the prose is definitely not outside the realms of possibility either early on or subsequently.

I was thinking that since it was a person's name and not used necessarily as a contraction, that maybe it would acceptable.

Maybe she married this guy and took his last name -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff,_Sr.

I'll look at this again tomorrow, I need to go to bed.

I was alluding to strictly adhering to ONLY the English alphabet, 26 letters of the Latin script.

It'll be a feat to derive her name akin to Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff, but only after the prose is finalized so it'd be in the spirit of:

Quote
Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff himself provided the following explanation of his prodigious surname:

It tells a story of a wolf-killer, a resident of a stonehouse in a village, whose ancestors were conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well fed and carefully guarded against attack by ferocious enemies and whose ancestors 1,200,000 years before the first earth man, in a space ship made with tungsten and seven iridium motors and using light as a source of power, started a long journey across interstellar space, searching for a star around which was an inhabitable planet where they could establish a new race of intelligent mankind and where they would live long, happy lives and be free from attack by other intelligentsia from the outer space from whence they came
4573  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 03:47:13 AM
What about using "herself"?

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confer upon him herself untold and

I think that should work, but a name would add more characters.

maybe:

Miss Keihanaikukauakahihulihe'ekahaunaele

 Grin

Hoston, we have a problem! alert depicted fittingly in red, and as I've already stated the use of 's would've been in play if used where I initially thought it would work.

Giving a [long] name somewhere in the prose is definitely not outside the realms of possibility either early on or subsequently.

In the spirit of Blue Öyster Cult's (Don't Fear) The Reaper, given that the word 'necromancer' is incorporated in the prose, to increase the word count I've resorted to resurrecting the following meme:



E.g., "forever grazing across open fields filled with" becomes "forever grazing across open fertile fields filled with", being mindful in not stringing adjectives for fear (you like that word?) of commas being needed, but purposely omitted creating a grammatically incorrect run-on sentence [within].

I'm sure you brainiacs can find myriad places to incorporate one- or two-word (maybe more) adjective terms-cum-modifiers to further lengthen what we already have to date. Please correct me if my thinkin' is wong, else have at it.

For those who do read past the OP, the following is what we have so far:

Down in swampy Louisiana there dwells an iniquitous necromancer named _______ who spends all her time attempting to raise long lost corrupted spirits from their waterlogged tombs such that she might learn terrible truths about powerful artifacts which shall definitively confer upon herself untold and overwhelming powers concerning subjugation over earthly equinal lifeforms created by terrifyingly sadistic demons formerly residing among mere mortal ponies forever grazing across open fertile fields filled with golden wheat normally used during developing a procedure for discovering individuals projecting antidisestablishmentarianism tendencies within largely liberal congregations around meandering developments alongside rivers flowing southerly but not northerly similarly like River Nile past numerous cities including Luxor previously known as the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes ...

I just changed 'evil' to 'iniquitous' (increases the character count), and found a place to pen her name (see  ________), leaving it up to you guys to supply her name (bonus points awarded if it starts with the letter N).

I'm sure many words could be candidates for replacement with longer thesaurus-derived counterparts.
4574  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 02:50:01 AM
What about using "herself"?

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confer upon him herself untold and

I think that should work.

Yep, realizing that e.g. Alice's would be against the rules, then was leaning toward the usage of 'its' for the second her. Changing it now and seeing if any other probs poop out.

The latest rendition can always be found in the OP in purple (think: purple prose) below the fold.
4575  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 02:42:41 AM
Yeah, already did he/she, but stumbled here:

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definitively confer upon him untold and overwhelming

I already used 'her'. Can we give her a name to replace the first 'her' if not the second?

I'm going to read your latest now, bud, again, with thanks.

EDIT: Holy shit AGAIN! Just used the tool and saw we're now at 113 unique words.
4576  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 02:28:55 AM
IMPORTANT!: We're still need to use the letter 'K'.

I'm taking it upon myself to change 'his' to 'her' (at beginning of prose), thus a necromancer of the female persuasion, also resulting in changing 'he' to 'she'.
4577  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 02:23:58 AM
One more thing I need to add: all 26 letters of the English alphabet need to be used, leaving only the letter 'z' not yet used since I just added "past Luxor" so to include the letter 'x'.

Change galloping to grazing.

Doing it now, with thanks, bud. Fits perfectly!
4578  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 02:15:27 AM
Hey, all, I just found this tool: https://wordcounttools.com/





Shit, only 101 unique words, albeit still a record as far as I know. Somebody needs to Google to make sure while I continue to do the same. I'd say that a 200-word count prose will be difficult to accomplish but we can certainly set it as a goal nonetheless, with possibly a more realistic 1,000-character count not counting spaces being our backup goal. What do you guys think? Please weigh in.
4579  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas & repeating words & .. on: November 09, 2016, 01:46:04 AM
Down in Louisiana there dwells an evil necromancer who spends all her time attempting to raise long lost corrupted spirits from their waterlogged tombs such that she might learn terrible truths about powerful artifacts which shall definitively confer upon him untold and overwhelming powers of subjugation over earthly equinal lifeforms created by terrifyingly sadistic demons formerly residing among mere mortal ponies forever grazing across open fields filled with golden wheat normally used during developing a procedure for discovering individuals projecting antidisestablishmentarianism tendencies within largely liberal congregations around developments alongside rivers flowing southerly but not northerly as does the Nile past Luxor ...




Holy fuck, dudes! Lookin' very good thus far. Needless to say the task at hand will become harder due to the common one-, two- and three-letter words are virtually used up.

One more thing I need to add: all 26 letters of the English alphabet need to be used, leaving only the letter 'z' not yet used since I just added "past Luxor" so to include the letter 'x'.

I'd say let's make it a little bit longer, proof it, then collectively submit to the Guinness World Records for review with possible submission, perhaps first in its class so that subsequent wordsmiths will have the chance to break our record.

Anybody who's not able to submit due to whatever reasoning, please at least proofread the ongoing prose in making sure it passes all the rules stipulated mostly in the OP, with a couple new guidelines introduced hence.

Special thanks to those who've contributed to date.

Bruno
4580  Other / Off-topic / Re: Crafting the world's longest English sentence sans commas and repeating words. on: November 08, 2016, 10:46:34 PM
Sure... replace "carbon-based" with "equine" to bring your wishes to have a pony reference to fruition Grin

Dude, you're a sick puppy. Okay, I'll do it. Does "equinal" work in the below?




Down in Louisiana there dwells an evil necromancer who spends all his time attempting to raise long lost corrupted spirits from their waterlogged tombs such that he might learn terrible truths about powerful artifacts which shall definitively confer upon him untold and overwhelming powers of subjugation over earthly equinal lifeforms ...

<I would gladly give my middle testicle if I were able to truly write like that>
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