Ship of Fools: International Book Week

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Posted by Edith (# 16978) on :

Take the book closest to you. Turn to page 52. Find the fifth sentence and list it here and / or on your FB page as your status. Don't name the title or author. Share the rules.

'Public and religious ceremonies were conducted according to precise forms of words and any mistake by the officiant was held to be so unlucky that the entire ritual had to be repeated.

Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :

(You're going to regret asking!)

"The dimensions, which take the form of measures of length employing the unit jtrw 'river' (ca. 10.6 km, similar to the Greek schoinos), vary widely."

[ 24. September 2013, 09:58: Message edited by: Jane R ]

Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :

I just checked and it seems International Book Week is an informal FB thing, not an official festival like World Book Day. But it's still a good game...

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

'Could a translator create a linguistic anomaly in English that corresponds to this triple division of 'you'?'

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

"From a social perspective marginal persons are those who have no social power."

Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :

"Feller, you're the first guy I ever saw who looked bigger'n his reputation."

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

What a fun game!
[Biased]

Hmmm, game it is.

Keep your clown shoes and red noses inside the mini car at all times. We're off to the Circus!

jedijudy
Heaven Host

Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :

These norms may be different for ELLs who come from countries where asking questions may be seen as disrespectful.

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Edith:
'Public and religious ceremonies were conducted according to precise forms of words and any mistake by the officiant was held to be so unlucky that the entire ritual had to be repeated.

Wait...not only do I know which book that is,* I was reading it the other night, meaning that it's my closest book! However, I have a different edition, so: "In the social sciences the importance of integration and configuration was stressed in the last generation by Wilhelm Dilthey."

*Correction: okay, so it's not actually the book I thought it was, it just sounds almost exactly like a sentence in my book. Thank you, Google, for crushing my dreams of coincidence.

[ 24. September 2013, 14:55: Message edited by: Ariston ]

Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :

I have a grammar book fairly close, and it has lots of long sentences of explanations that include demonstrative sentences within them..... Too complicated for me to deal with here, so I'm skipping to the next book on the shelf, if that's allowed!

My sentence count doesn't include the sentence that starts on the previous page.

quote:

But shortly after Pupatee lost his job on the milk round, Joe bought himself a car and stopped using his own bicycle to go to work.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

(Next down the 'in progress' stack)

'A century before, a Byzantine and unreformed judiciary had brought ruin and disaster to Foote's family'.

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

"She hunted for Topic Sentences and Transitional Sentences the way little girls hunt for white violets in the springtime."

OK, I cheated, that was actually the fourth sentence, but while the actual fifth sentence was good:

"What she loved most of all were Figures of Speech."

the fourth just had something more to it.

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

"My noble Andrea was dead, and at that very moment his funeral obsequies were being celebrated in the neighbouring church - the very church in which I had first beheld the mysterious lady!"

One of the shorter sentences in the book...

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

"I forget her name, but she had red fingernails and---"

Moo

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

The rest of her body was swollen, too, especially her belly.

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Such religion as she practiced, the nightly prayers she still said, were rooted in gratitude.

Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :

Now if I have 'sensed the colours', I have presumably already had 'intuitions' about which is the lighter, &c., those being inseparable from the sensing.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

It is worth remembering, though, that the cost of Versailles and of the theatrical events promoted there was in the last analysis born [sic] by millions of people who were granted no access to them.

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Bestow thy blessing on the harvest of the waters, that it may be abundant in its season, and on our sailors and fishermen, that they may be safe in every peril of the deep ..."

Can you tell that D. and I share a desk? [Big Grin]

Posted by Tea (# 16619) on :

quote:
How could I have believed that a girl would fall in love with me!

Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :

quote:
This pile of usefule parts increased dramatically with the sequencing of the human genome in 2003

Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :

"When Montesquieu uses caractere, he seems to mean a form or shape of the spirit, combining these meanings."

(NB caractere should have a grave accent on the first e, but I can't work out how to do it...)

Posted by Herrick (# 15226) on :

She is, throughout the 44-poem sequence, the lover of the man and, in turn, the object of his love (yet she controls the representation of that love).

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

The sovereignty of the Queen of Heaven is discreetly suggested by the throne enveloped by her robe and by her crown surmounted by a fleur-de-lis.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

"...I'll bath when I get home..."

Posted by scuffleball (# 16480) on :

"J'ai assez et ma mère est d'accord, même si elle ne le sait pas."

From "Le Messager du chevalier noir" by 'Tonke Dragt

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

Certainly I know that.

Posted by Tubbs (# 440) on :

"The other [table] was narrow, pushed against a wall".

Tubbs

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

"But there is a bright side".

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

"The Hamburglar does."

Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :

"Never."

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

"I cannot therefore give a full list of victims."

Moo

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

Having gained the arete from the left, make a delicate traverse rightwards, parallel to, but at a lower level than the previous route, to gain Mutiny Crack.

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