-----Original Message----- From: "Hiten Raja" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:38:22 To: b. Kal Ho Na Ho<[email protected]> Subject: [Desi Masala] The word is "ONLY".
Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the eye yesterday." The word is "ONLY". The Message: 1.ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.) 2.I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.) 3.I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.) 4.I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.) 5.I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.) 6.I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye..) 7.I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.) 8.I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.) This is the beauty and complexity of the English language. jckrsna Yours Hiten A. Raja Nairobi. KENYA. [email protected] We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- you have this email because you join to "aga-madjid" GoogleGroups. to post emails, just send to : [email protected] to join this group, send blank email to : [email protected] to quit from this group, just send email to : [email protected] please visit to www.facebook.com/aga.madjid, add my Yahoo Messenger at [email protected] or add my twitter @aga_madjid thanks for joinning this group.
