pafret Loc: Northeast

"The Most Beautiful Sentence in the English Language?"

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 07:43 PM PST
"The Most Beautiful Sentence in the English Language?"
by William Crawley


"Some time ago, I tweeted a link to the 100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language (as chosen by Dr. Goodword). This prompted some twittering from my esteemed followers. Steve Goddard, over at Ship of Fools, has been in touch with news that he's been encouraging his readers to construct a sentence using those same beautiful words. Money quote:

"Demurely, I gambolled in my bucolic bungalow, brooding on a dalliance with an eloquent, evanescent palimpsest which would be the cynosure of all, evocative of halcyon glamour, redolent of the riparian petrichor of the Susquehanna; incipient it was, until an insouciant harbinger made an ebullient epiphany by my inglenook, to murmur, "'Ere! The ratatouille's conflating, and it's gone all effervescent!" and wafted out again, leaving me languid and woebegone for my ephemeral leisure."

Is that not now the most beautiful sentence in the English language?"
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/
BBC Northern Ireland presenter William Crawley discusses the
often controversial political, religious and ethical issues of the day.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Well, it is something to behold.

badbobby Loc: texas

if I ever get my tongue unentangled
I might(just might)essay a response
somehow I knew that Slat would have a comment

pafret Loc: Northeast

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Yep.

badbobby Loc: texas

ah yes Lewis Carroll
he could twist words with the very best
of course he never got up against our Archie

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) sounds like he must'a had a Texan somewhere in his family tree, BB.

badbobby Loc: texas

or maybe a Amarilloan

pafret Loc: Northeast

No, I don't think he was an Armadillo, more of a prickly pear.

badbobby Loc: texas

did I say armadillo?
guess I'm kinda mixed up here with all the pontificatin

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

How did the Pope get involved with this

badbobby Loc: texas

dunno who it was
but someone sed he was always pokefien in everyone elses business

pafret Loc: Northeast

Is that Pogo the 'possum' doing the pogefying?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Mayhaps.

ccobb

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