One day, I wrote a sentence that was just very strange at the base of the word. So today I have decided that I am going to look for the strangest combination of words in existence. So we're going to start simply: "The octopus decided to wear jeans today." Okay. Nothing too crazy. You may not understand and octopus' desire or ability to wear jeans, but it makes sense on a purely lingual level. Now let's change it up a little bit: "The octopus decided to become jeans today." That's a pretty dramatically different sentence. A subtle change of a single word made the sentence slightly more ridiculous. How exactly does an octopus go about becoming jeans? But let's go more subtle: "The octopus decided to become genes today." Okay, now there's a homonym taking the place of the word jeans. Obviously the octopus itself cannot become genes, but that's not important. Now how about we make this sentence absolutely wild. "Genes decided to become an octopus today."
We very quickly went from an octopus deciding to put on a pair of jeans to start the day, to genetic information creating an octopus. It went from a cephalapod wearing textile, to evolution. But how can we segue more sentences into odd things? Lets look at a common sentence in the English language: "I had no idea." You know what this sentence means. Now lets make it different. "I had idea." That sentence seems kind of odd to say, although it isn't grammatically incorrect. Let's change it some more. "I am Idea." That one doesn't make much sense to say, besides the fact that it sounds rather Russian. Now we'll add to it. "I am an idea." Now you yourself are not an idea. People aren't ideas, that much is obvious. Now lets make it different. "I am an idea maker." This sentence is very true, even though you may not think of it like that.
Now why don't we really make it strange. Let's add the octopus sentence after the idea maker one. "I am an idea maker. The octopus decided to wear jeans today." Now let's scramble that around. "I am an octopus. The idea maker decided to wear jeans today." Now the octopus is telling a story about an idea maker. That's pretty neat considering that Octopuses can't actually speak human language. Now let's figuratively slam it against a wall. "I am an octopus idea maker, who decided to wear jeans today." Okay. Now we have a fully sentient octopus. Maybe this is how Octo-dad came to be. Now let's remove this even farther from our figurative wall. "I am the idea maker who decided to wear an octopus as jeans today." Oh no. That is a terrible idea, but our idea maker did come up with it. You can decide whether or not you're proud of them. This could be a new fashion innovation. We'll call it octopants. Our idea maker can see the marketers flowing in already. That means it's time for a new sentence.
The new sentence will be, "A plucked chicken is a man." That's already quite the sentence. Considering Diogenes as we would consider the coconut, let's make it different. "A plucked chicken is Diogenes." That sentence, apart from being a bit rude, is quite inaccurate, as well as being grammatically incorrect so lets fix it. "Diogenes is a plucked chicken." That sounds almost like an insult. Let's make a final revision. "Diogenes is a plucked chicken with broad, flat nails." He is truly a man in this regard.
How about this sentence, "I won't let go." Let's change it into, "I'll never let go." Now this is a sentence addressing a person, so let's explicitly state that. "I'll never let you go." That could be romantic, but in this context it's not. How do we know that? Because I told you.
Now let's change it to be more personal. "I'm never going to let you go." That one is romantic. Let's simplify something first. We can combine "Going" and "To". "I'm never gonna let you go." That's a bit more like something a midwesterner would say. In some cases we can say that letting go is giving up. so let's change that as well. Let's also remove the word, "I'm," because at this point, it is unnecessary. "Never gonna give you up NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU."
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