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Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:31 pm
by brogine
The lads commission a new sign for the garage:

Klick and Klack’s Auto Repair.

Reviewing the work before mounting it, one of them objects to a small imperfection with a grammatically correct remark containing the same word five times consecutively. (Holy moly!)

And the remark was . . . ?

Re: Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”

Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:20 am
by Slava
:?: :?: :?: :?: :?: And the answer is...? :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

AAAGGGHHH, the tension's killing me! :D

Re: Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:11 pm
by brogine
Suffer no longer.


Accounts vary on which brother commented that . . .

“It’s pretty good, but the spaces between
‘Klick’ and ‘and’ and ‘and’ and ‘Klack’
are not the same.”

I hope that does not disappoint.

Re: Nifty Linguistic Puzzler from “Car Talk”

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:30 pm
by Slava
And the pain is gone.

Well put together. It needs a visual aid, though, to make it work even better. Which would get auto-corrected out by this site's robots.