17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Kent Borg says:
Besides, your sample phrase might not have as many bits in it as you think.
Rare steak tastes good when it is cooked over a wood fire. better chicken. better than fish. good with worcestershire sauce.
22 words, a good start. But all will appear in a short dictionary list, 4 gramatical sentences, sentences with related meaning.
Were I using a sentence like that, I'd probably spice it up with low probability words and the like, as in "rare olliphant meat tastes good when cooked over a burning car. better than oktopuss. not as good as republican. tasty with wasabi and chives." Still fewer bits than I'd like, but you do better when things take an unexpected turn mid-phrase. Perry