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Les Dawson sentences.

23:00 / 22.02.06

Les Dawson was an excellent pianist. He also excelled in playing 'wrong piano'; intentionally bad with mad cadences and duff notes, music that sounded like it should be right but was somehow just wrong.

At college I had a friend who did a similar thing when she wrote about the reasoning for her art projects. For a while I thought she was hugely intellectual and then I realised that she wrote sentences with clever words in that were in actual fact absolute nonsense.

In theory excellent wordsmiths should be able to construct sentences which read correctly but make absolutely no sense whatsoever, but I think it's quite hard. The brain is programmed to make things make sense and to ensure they are correct and overiding that impulse is hugely difficult.

So I'm interested. Can you write a sentence which people read and think they should understand but which actually makes no sense whatsoever?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:20 / 22.02.06

A little too tired to put my brain to this at the moment... but I'm looking forward to reading some and will try to contribute when I've had some sleeeeep.

23:25 / 22.02.06

It's nothing intently to whatever chance that we merit deadlock and shut up and risibility from environmental fluctuations.

23:34 / 22.02.06

I started talking about this on my LJ, and this was my sentence:

This represents the hegemony faced by many unexamined metaphors in the illusions of fact, specifically in the misogny of idealism and strategy, and referencing the struggle between mental actuality and general socialism.

I'm fairly sure it doesn't mean anything but I'm not entirely convinced it's structurally correct.

23:37 / 22.02.06

But, to be honest, people and small minds can't be doing this sort of thing partially when all you're looking for, really, is a kind of answer.

paranoidwriter waves hello

23:42 / 22.02.06

I know everything about nothing and can remember it as though it happened tomorrow.

23:43 / 22.02.06

Overtones of logic notwithstanding the marriage of (parenthetical) ideologies and, that of course of, further parentheses themselves could only ever distribute the ungainly interpretation held largely to question by a certain ladies origami group, which isn't (and could never be) profoundly distracting in its inherent yet renascent profundity.

23:45 / 22.02.06

Absolutely.

23:57 / 22.02.06

(Did that make more sense than it should have then?)

00:02 / 23.02.06

No, it was exactly the right kind of sentence. It was the kind you read and feel the need to say, "Absolutely." about even though you have no idea what it means, because you feel like you should know and more importantly, that everyone else actually does.

00:05 / 23.02.06

In the sharpness of Tyre, we flew belatedly and the biblical ineptitude is runny.

00:10 / 23.02.06

(oh good!)

01:02 / 23.02.06

Bin the frog devilishly fine whether we do or weir dammed.

semioticrobotic

01:35 / 23.02.06

This reminds me a bit of what the postmodernism essay generator can do.

01:38 / 23.02.06

Vote for politicians.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

01:46 / 23.02.06

(Its time for me to dig into one of the several thousand+ word automatic-writing essays I wrote back in high school. These "Surrealist Accounts" make no real sense. Enjoy.)

Understanding this, we further flow onwards with the relativistic pull of the universal all and the controlling elements which bind the masses to lives of indisputable existence under which they are ruled by the sub-vocal minority who's controlling tentacles stretch outwards like a gianormous fish. Elemental to these principles are the co-push-pull of the universal all through the medium of the Einstein-esque theories of the Erisian cults and thus running the Discordant world like the ever spinning Chao beneath the sublime principles of undue justice in an agrarian society. Of course, this is all assuming that we do not live in a world controlled by an illuminated few in a lamp like existence where we are treated like moths and cattle and bred to be born into flames and brunt at the stake for those evils which were committed by our forefathers in the words of the society to which they are chained.

alejandrodelloco

01:58 / 23.02.06

The abstract surface of the deconstructed paradigm lacks the resolution of a genuine post-mignonian phenomenon.

02:37 / 23.02.06

On Literature, an excerpt:

As is shown by the code-mixing in example 14, most people can hardly deny that redundant elements in such a dynamic variety of English is another means of representing the information that a new attitude towards the emergent features is more likely to exert its impact of the informal identity of being Chinese. Such mixing is relatively rare in the poetic resourcefulness of normal usage - it cannot be metaphorical. Indeed, the fact that the poem assumes a far greater significance than the register of bereavement advertising in the praiseworthy qualities of head and heart needs to be pointed out. Such is the fluidity of the language that many storms may be weatherd while the calm and quiet matter in which matters of sex are handled does not mean that the poet is unappreciative of the importance of speed and despatch.

03:31 / 10.12.07

Although it was agreed a lewd practice by some, none of the 'highly formed individuals' residing under my tutelage that year (even those more liminal dreamers), could deny without hesitating (fleur bleue and over-fond as it undoubtably seems) that it also had something of the sacred in its bowel, a pointing, laughing jaunt to the uncanny, an intertextual, visually problematic connundrum writ large on Freud's wall in the most invitingly packaged M&S lime green shower gel.