stermy4u@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?message-squaremessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down15
arrow-up1116arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the greatest sentence ever written in human history?stermy4u@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square147linkfedilink
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·1 month agoThe chinese poem “The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions” Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
minus-squareZacryon@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 month agoI wouldn’t label it as “the greates sentence ever”, rather as a great example why chinese is a highly cumbersome and impractical language.
The chinese poem “The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
I wouldn’t label it as “the greates sentence ever”, rather as a great example why chinese is a highly cumbersome and impractical language.