Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Riddle: What word can be used 3 times consecutively in a sentence?

A friend once asked everyone that question. @Waseem: "If u get the closest answer, your XBOX will get BSOD? whenever you reach a save point." ;) I wonder what responses the readers would come up with! Hint #1: It is a trick question but the question is straightforward and the answer is as complicated as a single character. Hint #2: No more hints :D *The character is a comma ",".

6 comments:

  1. is it like a homophone?
    Then my answer is the word to/two/too, dont ask me for a sentence now, but im sure there could be one.

    Im sure the answer is something else though

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  2. Yes your right! The answer is something else :D

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  3. What do you eat for those super-efficient braincells. Google cant even take a hint :D
    You manipulated the hints very well!
    The answer I had originally heard was, "You can't use because, because because is a conjunction."
    Conjunction as subject + Tautology/Redundancy.

    The use of the participle "is" as a conjunction is the only way of displaying their( a conjunction's) flexibility as a subject.

    I wonder if there are more...

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  4. ur comma usage skills r 1337

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  5. 3 times? that's child's play.
    try this:
    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
    And that's grammatically correct.
    ha.

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