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The person who wrote the following sentence must be a genius.  Can anyone tell me why?

 

"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical counterbalancing indecipherability  transcendtallizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness."

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The number of letters in each word increases in succession (until the 15th or 16th word, then there is either a mistake or my tired eyes are playing a trick on me). Either way, it's pretty cool.

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Called Rhopalic ~  it describes text in which each word contains one more letter or syllable than the one preceding it.

 

A-Jay

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Called Rhopalic ~  it describes text in which each word contains one more letter or syllable than the one preceding it.

 

A-Jay

 

Very good.  When there is a team trivia contest, I want you on my side.

 

Never heard of the word before.  I have a lot of useless knowledge tidbits.  Now I have another. 

 

Without looking, do you know what defenestration means?  Answer below.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

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The person who wrote the following sentence must be a genius.  Can anyone tell me why?

 

"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical counterbalancing indecipherability  transcendtallizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness."

 

I do know where and when the doctors acquired ......................................................

 

It started when they stopped teaching penmanship in schools.  From first grade on, in this area, we were taught "penmanship", using the Reinhart Method until we got into high school.  I think it was a scheme hatched by forgers so that all handwriting was the same.

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Very good.  When there is a team trivia contest, I want you on my side.

 

Never heard of the word before.  I have a lot of useless knowledge tidbits.  Now I have another. 

 

Without looking, do you know what defenestration means?  Answer below.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

 

 

Nope ~ That was a new one on me.

 

The word not the act . . . .

 

A-Jay

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