Eye no your two out they're, sew their.

I’m trying to find the most perfect imperfect sentence. Please top this.

Well, no, I can’t see anyone topping that one:

It’s perfect just as it is.

:smiley:

Its it’s‽

(Too me lesses moor).

Mutey…I can’t make sense of the “two.” As in “you are TOO out there!” ?

yes, the sentence should be, “I know you’re too out there, so there.” It has the components of the three big errors your/you’re, there/their/they’re, and to/too/two. Sadly, “out” is spelled correctly. If I could have a perfect sentence with the big three and everything homonymically misspelled, my mission would be accomplished. Having all the components of the big three included incorrectly would be the golden egg.

Not English, but for you French speakers there’s: Il y a eu un houx en haut.

Which means, “There was a holly bush on top”.

And pronounced, roughly: Ee ah euh uh ooh aah oh.*

It’s grammatical, but …

  • In the phonetic transcription I use, it comes out as: i a ö û u ê ó

As for French, I prefer:

Pis-terre, Pis-terre,
Pomme qui nie terre.

I roughly translates:
Worse earth, worse earth
apple who denies earth.

It goes on, as does its sound-alike rhyme in English.

:slight_smile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d’Heures
http://www.aescon.com/aesconsulting/french/
http://www.panopticist.com/2005/02/the_dantin_manuscript

From Futility Closet:

I can’t vouch for this — from I.J. Reeve, The Wild Garland (1865), “a Welsh englyn which in its four lines does not contain a single consonant”:

“On the Silkworm”

O’i wiw wy i weu ê â a’i weau
O’i wyau e weua;
E’ weua ei we aia’.
Ai weau yw ieuau iâ.

Translation:

“I perish by my art; dig my own grave;
I spin my thread of life; my death I weave.”

Not a complete sentence, but it’s from a series that ran every now and again in the Chicago Tribune. This one is the title of a Brothers Grimm story: Hand Sill Land Griddle. :tomato:

With best regards,

Pfreddee(Stephen)