In my first year linguistics class, the prof mentioned in passing that you might say "I heard a new word today," but you'd never say "I heard a new sentence today." (She was making some point, I forget what it was.)
We glommed onto that and started pointing out every time someone says a sentence that we have reason to believe has never been uttered before, usually by shouting "SENTENCE!" at it.
But we can retire now. Stephen Fry has us all beat. (And I want to be in the room when this was written):
Added bonus: this is so gay!
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