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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Imagine if you will..
That Messrs Chomp and Boyce formed some sort of commercial endeavour; offering their sevices as after dinner speakers or escorts to lonely widows, perhaps. And, let us further imagine that they decided to assign the name Charming and Witty, to said enterprise. They would, of course, need business cards printed to alert people to their services. What, if on receiving the proof of the card, they were unhappy with the layout of the text and one of them had to advise the printers of their disatisfaction thus.

"Specifically the gaps between Charming and and, and and and Witty are too small"

Would that be a cromulant sentence despite containing five consecutive ands?
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:02, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
For reasons I cannot fathom
I feel a strong compulsion to start yelling "Buffalo" repeatedly.
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Stealing from The Simpsons excites vituperative ire in you, I fear.

(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Good sir, I fear your citation perplexeth me.
Risse?
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:14, Reply)
Pfft, I'm well out of me depth, now.

(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:17, Reply)
In commone parlance
I didn't realise you were referencing The Simpsons.
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:18, Reply)
I first heard the word cromulant in an episode of The Simpsons that was about the forming of the town
and about how its founder had slain a buffalo.

I wondered if that was the connection you were making.
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:21, Reply)
Ah, no, I think that's just a coincidence
(Though I do love the line "the buffalo was already tame, I merely shot it.")
I was referring to
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

(Sadly the article fails to make judicious use of the word 'cromulent' in its description.)
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
Ahh.
Also bah, that has eight consecutive uses of a word and I only had five.

Eight is more than five.
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
Just about.
Clarity might be heightened through the judicious use of quotation marks, I'd say:

"Specifically the gaps between 'Charming' and 'and', and 'and' and 'Witty' are too small"
(, Wed 8 Dec 2010, 16:14, Reply)

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