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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 28th April 2006 13:59

Assalamu alaikum.......


What's unusual about this paragraph?


This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it �" and in fact nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck �" don't blow your cool!


Wassalaam

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 28th April 2006 21:17
Wa alaikum sallam
SUGGESTION 1) You're saying there's nothing wrong with it but then you say
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and in fact nothing is wrong with it.


SUGGESTION 2) First you say we should try do it quickly and then you say to us to work for it for a bit.


I don't if i'm right or not. To be honest I'm HOPELESS at riddles

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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 28th April 2006 22:03

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First you say we should try do it quickly and then you say to us to work for it for a bit.


But that doesn't make the paragraph unusual does it?

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 28th April 2006 23:12
it is not unusual - its complettly normal a sentence.
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#5 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 10:06
its unusual because it speaks for it self in the 1st sentence. maybe that is its own description?
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#6 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 11:01

Wrong answers so far....Keep on trying....its quite simple really!!!


Good luck anyway


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#7 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 17:36
:S mind boggling
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#8 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 18:40
has it got anything 2 do with the fact its only a single paragraph. Normally, a paragraph is part of an ariticle/ essay that has been sectioned into smaller chunks?
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#9 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 19:05
Very unusual, so if "This is a most unusual paragraph." was written as "This is the most unusual paragraph." then would it still be unusual? If no, then I think I know the answer
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#10 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 20:03
Salaams
Is the answer by any chance that there is no letter 'e' in the whole paragraph?
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#11 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 22:56
Assalamualaikum.w.w.

every single word used within the paragraph has a vowel within it, except the word Why and Try, other then that i didn't notice anything, however the vowels in each word could just be a coincidence and nothing unusual?

Wassalam

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#12 [Permalink] Posted on 29th April 2006 23:34

Madina wrote:
Salaams Is the answer by any chance that there is no letter 'e' in the whole paragraph?


!!!That's it!!!

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#13 [Permalink] Posted on 1st May 2006 10:02
thats not unusual!!...is it?
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#14 [Permalink] Posted on 1st May 2006 11:07


Islam wrote:
thats not unusual!!...is it?


It is!!!


Try writing a paragraph without using the letter 'e' once,


then you'll appreciate this riddle and the importance of the vowel 'e'.


Although there was this writer (Ernest Vincent Wright)who wrote his whole book "Gadsby: Champion of Youth" which had over 50,000 words in it without using the letter 'e' once!


anyways...


Salaams

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#15 [Permalink] Posted on 1st May 2006 23:15
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Although there was this writer (Ernest Vincent Wright)who wrote his whole book "Gadsby: Champion of Youth" which had over 50,000 words in it without using the letter 'e' once!


I would love to ask him what made him do that and why. Interesting. Hard to believe though so I googled it and it's true. Maybe someone here should write one in Arabic without using 'Alif' (impossible I know)

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