Grammatically correct word repetition.

I am inclined to leave the sentence this way just for the fun of it.

"What wind we had had had been from the stern."

 

As a kid, my English teacher gave us a sentence. "I would say that that that, that that should be in italics."

 

It is rather fun to see how many you can get in a row
Did you watch the award ceremony for UK documentaries released this year? That World War I one won one award... OK that's possibly cheating because it's not really the same word

 

This is the celebrated world record (minus punctuation)


James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

 

You are all amazing.

 

Yes, you are very lovely too - as well as Jet Black and Cat Face, and me.

 

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Yes, that is a perfectly valid English sentence.

 

Why why why Delila?

 

Na na na na na na na na hey hey goodbye.

 

Hodor Hodor Hodor Hodor Hodor

 

Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon.

 

Everyone (except Ed) is pretty familiar with the classics. "Had had" "that that" "Buffalo buffalo". Are there any style guides about this kind of thing? It comes up in normal speech all the time but inevitably looks a little odd in writing. A couple people have told me it is a faux pas in written English.

 

I've not heard of "Buffalo buffalo" except in answer to the question, "Who do you like in the Jets-Bills game this Sunday?"

 

On a writer's forum, we'd joke ", , , , , Chameleon"

"WHO LET THE PUNS OUT?!?!"

 

Police police Police police police police Police police. (Police is a city in Poland.)

Will, will Will will Will Will's will?

 

After about three words in, it starts to lose all meaning. Then I start to question the spelling of police.

 

Thurber once wrote of a similar experience. He awoke in the middle of the night and suddenly couldn't remember the name Perth Amboy. "I began to indulge in the wildest fancies as I lay there in the dark, such as there was no such town and even that there was no such state as New Jersey. I fell to repeating the name 'Jersey' over and over again, until it became idiotic and meaningless. If you have ever lain awake at night and repeated one word over and over, thousands and millions of times, you know the disturbing mental state you can get into." (from "More Alarms At Night")

 

"I like when their team is on the road to play against the Rangers. When they're there, their team always wins."