Grandeur of the
English Language:
Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited
with inventing a sentence that can be made to have
Eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD
in all possible positions in the sentence:
"I hit him in the eye yesterday."
The
Query: What is this word?
The Answer: The word is "ONLY".
The
Message:
1- ONLY I hit him in the eye
yesterday. (No one else did.)
2- I ONLY hit him in the eye
yesterday. ( Did not slap him.)
3- I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4- I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside
the eye.)
5- I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6- I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have
another eye..)
7- I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8- I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)
This is the beauty and complexity of the language
موضوع: Grandeur of the English Language: 
الأحد ديسمبر 26, 2010 12:06 pm