Friend Bob says elsewhere,

”They should let Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt job share with the mornings for him and the afternoons for her. Then we could have the p.m. PM P.M.”

In tat spirit, I briefly submit the following for you amusement: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

All hail, hale Hale!

Well, in that case I submit this example of someone explaining why he got a question on his English exam wrong but his friend got it right... “I, where he had had “had”, had had “had had”.

And it occurs to me that this could get really meta (not connected with Meta™) if there is a situation where both I and my friend try to explain that last sentence to you but, as before he gets it right and I get it wrong...

I, where he had had 'had had “had”, had had “had had”' had had 'had had “had had”, had had “had had”'.

And if we tried to explain THAT sentence... and so on ad infinitum.

I think I will go and have a lie down now.

It also occurs to me that if I asked Paul McCartney to send a message to my hypothetical part time Prime Minister I would say "P.M. PM p.m. PM P.M."

I think we've been had.

Yes. I learned a version of that many years ago, with two kids discussing the reason for their different marks in English class:

Tom, where Tim had had "had," had had "had had;" "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

Doesn't quite have the same recursive potential of yours, though...

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
Yes. I learned a version of that many years ago, with two kids discussing the reason for their different marks in English class:

Tom, where Tim had had "had," had had "had had;" "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

Doesn't quite have the same recursive potential of yours, though...

I had, or had had, a hell of a job making sure I got the recursive version right. And I'm still not 100% sure that I did.