The person who invented this sentence is either a Vocabulary GENIUS or is absolutely JOBLESS.

Why?

You’ll soon find out !!!

Read the sentence below carefully…

“I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness”.

This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long.

e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long, 8th word is 8 letters long and so on

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78 comments

  1. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 12:15 AM  

    amazing!

  2. Amy // May 7, 2009 12:16 AM  

    Damn. That's awesome. >.< I'm an English major... lol

  3. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 12:21 AM  

    intercommunications needs to have an apostrophe, but interesting sentence.

  4. sigh // May 7, 2009 12:22 AM  

    Run on sentence... There should be a period after handwriting, and Nevertheless should become a new sentence.

  5. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 12:22 AM  

    Look at it this way:

    I
    do
    not
    know
    where
    family
    doctors
    acquired
    illegibly
    perplexing
    handwriting
    nevertheless,
    extraordinary
    pharmaceutical
    intellectuality
    counterbalancing
    indecipherability,
    transcendentalizes
    intercommunications
    incomprehensibleness

  6. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 12:26 AM  

    That's idiotic.

  7. Alex // May 7, 2009 12:32 AM  

    Wow! Thats just crazy :D

  8. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 3:26 AM  

    LOL It was me!

  9. David // May 7, 2009 4:01 AM  

    shame he couldn't master basic punctuation

  10. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 4:45 AM  

    shopped

  11. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 5:09 AM  

    intercommunication's?

  12. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 5:10 AM  

    1st word one letter long

  13. Alison Robin // May 7, 2009 5:11 AM  

    Very cool!

    BTW, It's called a Snowball Sentence, and you didn't need to explain what "Nth word is N letters long" meant.

  14. mike // May 7, 2009 5:25 AM  

    How can a word be "N" letters long?

  15. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 5:35 AM  

    I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness.

    fixed

  16. Taz // May 7, 2009 5:40 AM  

    First.

    Someone has too much time on their hands

  17. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 5:44 AM  

    That is because it is supposed to be read like so:

    I
    do
    not
    know
    where
    family
    doctors
    acquired
    illegibly
    perplexing
    handwriting
    nevertheless,
    extraordinary
    pharmaceutical
    intellectuality
    counterbalancing
    indecipherability,
    transcendentalizes
    intercommunications
    incomprehensibleness


    (Because of the font, some of the words may appear smaller than they actually are :) )

  18. Jeremy // May 7, 2009 5:55 AM  

    cool! but it doesn't make sense, starting at transcendentalizes

  19. brian // May 7, 2009 6:01 AM  

    nice

  20. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 6:21 AM  

    whoa...

  21. Liam // May 7, 2009 6:41 AM  

    I do see that words rarely arrange cleverly.

  22. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 6:49 AM  

    probably a jobless genius with this god damn economy

  23. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 7:03 AM  

    that is fuckin ridiculous someone has way too much time on their hands lol

  24. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 7:06 AM  

    It's really not that hard to do. It's more a matter of finding words that simply work together when dealing with a single topic. Anyone with a dictionary and time can do this. Also, it's grammatically incorrect.

  25. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 7:09 AM  

    this is so cool!

  26. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 7:11 AM  

    sadly, that's not the case. "Nevertheless" contains 13 letters but is the twelfth word in the sentence.

  27. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 7:12 AM  

    Nice.

  28. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 8:23 AM  

    wtf ftw!!!
    first

  29. Karis // May 7, 2009 8:43 AM  

    Although the person who wrote it seems incredibly verbose, the sentence is unfortunately grammatically incorrect.

  30. Tyler // May 7, 2009 8:51 AM  

    Awesome. 'nuf said

  31. Dylan // May 7, 2009 9:16 AM  

    I am now awed about ... screw it, i quit. thats awesome

  32. prog_head // May 7, 2009 9:29 AM  

    It's actually two sentences, and the second comma is completely unnecessary. Also, there should be an apostrophe after intercommunications. They may be a vocabulary genius, but certainly not a grammatical one.

  33. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 9:53 AM  

    Wow this is teh FIRST time ive seen this.

    kudos
    :o)

  34. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 9:57 AM  

    Wow had to read that a few times to comprehend, but props to the author

  35. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 10:51 AM  

    dang.

  36. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 11:21 AM  

    I am and ever shall amaze myself.
    OH Crap!! I just did it too!

  37. Phil // May 7, 2009 11:23 AM  

    Commas are wrong, but still an interesting sentence (it needs one after "handwriting" and needs to lose the one after "indecipherability")

  38. Patrick // May 7, 2009 11:43 AM  

    Oh My Fuck that is amazing.

  39. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 6:53 PM  

    nevetheless has 12 letter...it seems u lost counting

  40. Anonymous // May 7, 2009 8:54 PM  

    totally shopped

  41. Marbles // May 7, 2009 10:41 PM  

    This is from Dmitri A. Borgmann's Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, published 1965.

  42. Anonymous // May 8, 2009 12:41 AM  

    Intercommunications does not need to have have an apostrophe. It just came up with red underline in Firefox and you thought you would pretend to be intelligent and interject with a grammatical comment. Intercommunication is not possessing anything, so why would it need an apostrophe.

  43. Chay D // May 8, 2009 2:36 AM  

    From the same source:

    I
    am
    not
    very
    happy
    acting
    pleased
    whenever
    prominent
    scientists
    overmagnify
    intellectual
    enlightenment.

  44. Anonymous // May 8, 2009 11:06 AM  

    What do you do with a BA in English?

  45. Anonymous // May 8, 2009 3:05 PM  

    I agree w/ anon.

    I've done a lot of shopping before.

    You can tell by the pixels.

  46. Anonymous // May 10, 2009 1:23 AM  

    its photoshopped

  47. Anonymous // May 10, 2009 6:14 AM  

    this is cool, but those who say this is shopped...there is no point in using photoshop to come up something like this

  48. Anonymous // May 10, 2009 6:15 AM  

    this is cool, but those who say this is shopped...there is no point in using photoshop to come up something like this

  49. Anonymous // May 10, 2009 6:18 AM  

    this is really cool, but those who say this is photoshopped... there really is no point to do that with text.

  50. Michael // May 10, 2009 9:47 AM  

    very cleaver Liam...

  51. weight loss pills // May 10, 2009 11:15 AM  

    wow, really amazing sentcne

  52. Large Gamer // May 10, 2009 11:36 PM  

    So cool. SO COOL

  53. Anonymous // May 11, 2009 5:17 AM  

    "shopped" comments make me want to punch self in face

  54. Kate Mangan // May 11, 2009 6:48 AM  

    To the grammar Nazi hater: The way I read it, it IS possessing "incomprehensibleness" (which is not a word). It's the kind of sentence one might make to sound smart when they are not. I believe that these are intentional mistakes, but I could be wrong. Either way, cool sentence, poor grammar.

  55. Anonymous // May 12, 2009 3:15 AM  

    the cat sat on the mat

  56. AkaTako // May 12, 2009 5:10 AM  

    I think it's very interesting and original. I certainly couldn't come up with a better attempt!!

  57. Anonymous // May 13, 2009 8:27 AM  

    I couldn't agree more Kate, that sentence is an absolute grammatical nightmare. Anyone who has any formal training in writing skills would never consider this a sentence.
    Sorry for the buzz kill.

  58. clothear // May 13, 2009 3:08 PM  

    Can I have some of what he's on?

  59. Ric // May 14, 2009 12:56 AM  

    Shittily punctuated but otherwise cool.

  60. Anonymous // May 14, 2009 11:40 PM  

    Some folks get inebriated on the exuberance of their own verbosity.

  61. Anonymous // May 15, 2009 7:57 AM  

    "sadly, that's not the case. "Nevertheless" contains 13 letters but is the twelfth word in the sentence."


    At the risk of being trolled, I'll bite.

    Dude, you yourself spelled nevertheless with 12 letters.

    Don't believe me?

    Never = 5 letters
    The = 3 letters
    Less = 4 letters

    5+3=8
    8+4=12

  62. Nazi // May 19, 2009 8:06 PM  

    fantabulousssssssssss!!!!!

  63. Anonymous // May 22, 2009 2:33 AM  

    "transcendentalizes" is spelt wrong, in this context.... It should be transcendentalisms

  64. Anonymous // May 23, 2009 7:28 AM  

    Did he die?

  65. Anonymous // May 25, 2009 9:56 AM  

    who said shopped! lmao hahaha

  66. dave maity // May 30, 2009 3:08 AM  

    this is how it should read:

    “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting. Nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness.”

  67. dave maity // May 30, 2009 3:10 AM  

    This is how it should read:

    “I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting. Nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness."

    For the second part, the entire subject is "extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability."

    The verb is "transcendentalizes."

    And the object is "intercommunication's incomprehensibleness."

    Crazy sentence! :)

  68. Anonymous // June 16, 2009 9:36 AM  

    i am the best belly dancer; however, gyration continues pernicious utilitarian stereotypes.

  69. Anonymous // June 26, 2009 11:49 PM  

    It should be "i.e." in the description, not "e.g."

  70. Anonymous // June 27, 2009 12:11 AM  

    Bluestockings. I agree. 'shopped.

  71. Anonymous // June 27, 2009 12:23 AM  

    This is this week's Puzzler from the "Car Talk" show with Click & Clack on NPR.

  72. TaylorPark // June 27, 2009 12:50 AM  

    It's a mathematical formula that appears in poetry and cryptography called "the Fibonacci Sequence"

  73. Anonymous // June 27, 2009 3:27 AM  

    There should be a semicolon after "nevertheless." :)

  74. Anonymous // June 27, 2009 7:50 AM  

    I
    AM
    NOW
    SURE
    WHERE
    PEOPLE
    FINDING
    WASTEFUL
    SENTENCES
    MEANINGFUL,
    INTERESTING
    NEVERTHELESS
    ASTONISHINGLY
    GRAMMATICALLY
    INCONSISTENT
    MEANINGLESS
    INCORRIBLE
    SENTENCE
    HONORLY
    RESIDE
    OFTEN
    LIKE
    ONE
    OF
    U

  75. Myf White // June 27, 2009 9:37 AM  

    It's not a sentence... Nevertheless is a conjunction not an adverb. Add punctuation (e.g. semicolon) to fix it.

  76. Lauren // June 27, 2009 10:49 AM  

    Why do people have to ruin cool stuff by trying to correct it and sound smart? just shut up, it's cool someone did this. i doubt you could've done it.

  77. Anonymous // June 29, 2009 11:10 PM  

    Both e.g. and i.e. could mean 'for example'.

  78. Anonymous // September 13, 2009 9:46 AM  

    if your going to troll it try making something better then harras the author

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