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    X (or) Y=X and Y=-X Jean-Baptiste's Avatar
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    That Five Times Sentence Game!

    Here’s the contest.
    Write the best sentence using the word “that” five times consecutively. Yes it is possible; yes it is proper English.
    Submissions will be judged on creativity, coherence, logic, and flowiness.
    Five extra points will be awarded to the use of a sixth “that” somewhere in the sentence. (be mindful not to sacrifice twelve hundred points of smooth for the five points of a sixth that.)
    Twenty extra points will be awarded for every sesquipedalian incorporated into the sentence.

    Examples:
    Incorrect -- Now that that is over that is all that there is to say about that.

    Correct -- Is it false to say that that that that that caught was exosculated?

    Winners will receive world wide applause.
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    In the fog Charles Darnay's Avatar
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    If and Which were discussing that That that, That that, and that That were by far the best That's.


    You didn't specify capitalization and punctuation rules
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    Oh My, that is difficult...........Does anyone has a winning formula????
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    HaHa. Excellent, Charles. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the meaning of your sentence, but so far I think it's very clever. Yes, you're right, no restrictions on puncuation or capitalization (apostrophe S will also be accepted) so long as the consecutivity rule is followed.
    Madhuri, I was hoping that you would have the winning formula.
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    The fact that that `that' that that member Charles Darnay used is correct makes me hopeful that there will be many more entries here
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    In the fog Charles Darnay's Avatar
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    There's not much meaning to my sentence, I just personified conjunctures "If, Which and That,"

    A possible formula - not what I used but may work, is look up all the different definitions for "that", that way that that that that guy posted is a legitimate that....... hmmm
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    Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap!
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