Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" in Indonesian language version.
HAD up to here? So were readers of last week's column, invited to punctuate "Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiners approval."
You may remember an old classroom test in English language. What punctuation marks do you have to add to this sentence so as to make sense of it?
The object of this and similar tests is to make sense of a series of words by figuring out the correct intonation pattern.
Writing is secondary to speech, in history and in the fact that speech and not writing is fundamental to the human species.
In scanning across lines, readers also make use of the information parts carried along with the punctuatuion markes: a period, a dash, a colon, a semicolon or a comma may signal different degrees of integration/separation between the groupings.
Finally, verbal humour is often an ingredient of puzzles. As part of an advertising campaign for its educational website <learn.co.uk>, the Guardian (for 3 january 2001) included the following familiar grammatical puzzle.
Once a person has generated/bracketed part of the stream, then the activities of punctuation and connection (parsing) can occur in an effort to transform the raw data into information.
Suppose I decide that I wish to make up a sentence containing eleven occurrences of the word 'had' in a row ...
Do readers make use of the ways in which sentences are structured?
'Okay' said the Bellman, whose head was in danger of falling apart like a chocolate orange, 'let me get this straight: David Copperfield, unlike Pilgrim’s Progress, which had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had TGC’s approval?'
HAD up to here? So were readers of last week's column, invited to punctuate "Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiners approval."
