Tuesday, January 13, 2009

syntax: challenge!

A friend of mine mentioned this exercise on his website (www.derekorth.com) and I thought I'd try it in the waning minutes of my Tuesday. Basically, you take a couple sentences you've written recently (I used the beginning of my last blog post), and then you mix up all the words and add new punctuation. It's an exercise that challenges syntax, and ultimately challenges you to see outside the box. Here is what I got:

Day here: the impending woo in I flew my Thursday out of last Chicago. Early night I to heard midway—about on Thursday a flight was of the ones. Leave snowstorm airport! Am apparently night; Florida I on Well when one?

My favorite is the last line. It seems to me like I subconsciously asked Florida if I should move there.

If you partake in the challenge, please post your exercises as comments. How fascinating!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh yeah! Shout out!

Eddie Selover said...

Are when going you update to blog this?