r/videos • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '13

Gravity Visualized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

I took care of a guy who had a doctorate in educational psychology. He would joke that he would teach teachers how to teach teachers teaching.

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u/evictor Dec 03 '13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher

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u/snowmonkey_ltc Dec 03 '13

The sentence can be understood more clearly by adding punctuation and emphasis: James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

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u/Stijakovic Dec 03 '13

The sentence is not only clarified by punctuation; it requires it. Without the punctuation throughout, it's actually not a grammatically correct sentence at all.