| 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 fucked her in the bed yesterday." The word is "ONLY" The Message: 1. ONLY I fucked her in the bed yesterday. (No one else did). 2. I ONLY fucked her in the bed yesterday. (Confirmation). 3. I fucked ONLY her in the bed yesterday. (I did not fuck others). 4. I fucked her ONLY in the bed yesterday (I did not fuck outside the bed). 5. I fucked her in ONLY the bed yesterday (Not other places). 6. I fucked her in the ONLY bed yesterday (He doesn't have another bed). 7. I fucked her in the bed ONLY yesterday (Not today). 8. I fucked her in the bed yesterday ONLY (Did not wait for today). This is the beauty and complexity of the English language. |