Sunday, September 02, 2007

How to confuse people

If you're ever on a TV show that beeps profanity, use profanity in the middle of your sentences in a way that doesn't make sense. Use swear words as key nouns or verbs in the sentence (as opposed to as interjections that can easily be glossed over) but structure the sentence so that no swear word could possibly make sense in that place in the sentence. Then people at home receiving the beeped version will be scratching their heads trying to figure out what you said.

It's also an interesting intellectual exercise to try to create a sentence where no swear word can possibly fit in.

2 comments:

NickLuft said...

It is also an interesting exercise to make sentences only out of swear words (as nouns, adjectives and verbs), the only other words allowed are pronouns.

It is possible.

impudent strumpet said...

I can do it if I'm allowed prepositions and articles, but I haven't figured it out with just pronouns yet, apart from the "List a subject and a verb and call it a sentence" technique.