all my own

I told my friend, Emily, this weekend that sometimes I feel as if I live in the quotes of other people because their words say what I’m thinking so much better than I ever could. The following is an exception, however. It is thoroughly my quote. 

You see, we were fooling around on Saturday night with those magnetic words (and random prefixes and suffixes) that you put on refrigerators. Basically, we turned them upside down and chose several without knowing what they were, then tried to make grammatical sentences out of them. My first effort was:

“As an entertainer, chapterly sit between each device.”

Profound, no? So profound, indeed, that I don’t even know what it means . . . but it is grammatical. This illustrates an interesting linguistic point – that a sentence can be absolutely correct in its grammar, while at the same time, it is absolutely meaningless. Ah, the joy and mystery of language.

On the original note, I think we can now agree that I should stick to other people’s quotes rather than creating my own, right?

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Author: made4eternity

A sinner saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

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  1. What, that’s a great quote! My quote that I use all the time is “Ati, what’s with the frogs!?!” but all run together so it’s like “Atiwhatswiththefrogs!?!”. Isn’t that great? I got out of the 2001 RVA yearbook, and have no idea what it means, so I just use it instead of “what on earth” or whatever.

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