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Can't one just keep recursing further?

Only with very careful intonation and appropriate pauses after a comma can someone read Gardner's above sentence aloud such that a listener can fully grok the connection between "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "And,", and "And," and "and", and "and" and "And", and "And" and "and", and "and" and "and,", and "and," and "and", and "and" and "and", and "and" and "and".

(sentence due to Python 3).




I mean, if you're allowing that, what's wrong with:

> You should have seen this sign, it had 1000 ands in a row, and there was too much space between and and and and and and and and and ...


He has multiplied the ands. Pray he does not multiply them any further.


It is called the "and bomb".


"I am become and"


, destroyer of ors.


The ands justify the means


The Andalorian.


If you want to draw the graph where nodes are words from your comment, and two nodes are connected when they contain the same letters, you would have to draw edges between and and and, and and and and, and ...

Explodes even faster.




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