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Setning #953852

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Eccles17 Eccles17 7. febrúar 2018 — breytt 7. febrúar 2018 7. febrúar 2018 kl. 15:02:09 UTC — breytt 7. febrúar 2018 kl. 15:02:50 UTC flag Report link Tengill

Fixed. Sorry, someone mentioned this book the other day: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. I think it had a lot of material on self-referencing sentences, etc.

Thanks!!!


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deniko deniko 7. febrúar 2018 7. febrúar 2018 kl. 15:10:28 UTC flag Report link Tengill

I find the original sentence bizarre, but in a fascinating way. Kind of like a mashing of "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" with "I'll eat my hat" and also self-referencing.

I mean, as a learner of the English language, I find it very useful to meditate on sentences like

* Let's not beat around the dead horse.
* Rome wasn’t burnt in a day.
* Tomato potato.
* It's not rocket surgery.

It's mildly satisfying being able to understand the reference in those "malaphors".


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Eccles17 Eccles17 7. febrúar 2018 7. febrúar 2018 kl. 15:38:14 UTC flag Report link Tengill

@deniko, very funny! You found some good ones!


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Horus Horus 11. maí 2018 11. maí 2018 kl. 23:11:17 UTC flag Report link Tengill

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I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

bætt við af CK — 24. júní 2011

tengd af duran — 29. júní 2012

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I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

breytt af CK — 1. febrúar 2018

tengd af shekitten — 9. nóvember 2021