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From: jankok@zuring.UUCP (Jan Kok)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Double sentences
Message-ID: <272@zuring.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 07:53:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 07:53:15 1986
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In article <2705@sjuvax.UUCP> tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) writes:
>
>	The horse flies fast when the horse flies fast.
>
>_______
>Is there a name for this sort of construction, and does anybody
>know any other examples of it?

This is in line with Hofstadter (GEB)'s

    Politicians lie in cast-iron sinks.
    Politicians lie, cast-iron sinks.

( A variant is the Dutch : de boer had een varken
    en de moeder van de boer was ook de vader van het varken.)
-- 
jan kok, cwi (afd. nw), amsterdam, nederland
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