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[Solved] A nonsense sentence that when someone asks about any part of you explain by circling back to this sentence (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/tipofmytongue@lemmy.world
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Solved by @Aedis@lemmy.world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

I seem to remember reading a Wikipedia article about it. The sentence is "The X Ys Z". The words are gibberish like "Smirkel ghandles bitonipt". When you ask what is X you answer "X is what Ys Z", "what does it mean to Y?" "to Y is what X does to Z".

Am I remembering correctly or is there no such canonical sentence in English?

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Plumbus?

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