a font that no one knows why it exists

[David A. Daniel]

...a font with no reason to exist that anyone can think of.
...a font with no reason to exist that anyone knows about.
...a font with no reason to exist that anyone can imagine.
...a font with no known reason to exist.
...a font that has no known reason to exist.
...a no-known-reason-to-exist font.
DAD

Poster:       Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: a font that no one knows why it exists
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I don't think there are any people that this is a normal construction for.
 I've heard it (and produced it) often enough though through strolling down
the garden path. I remember in college when I first became aware of it -- I
was excited to have found an example where English just broke down.


> Poster:       Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
> Subject:      Re: a font that no one knows why it exists
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> On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
> >wrote:
> >
> >> But it's not exactly English.
> >
> >
> > a font for whose existence there is no known reason.
>
> I was playing around with devising something like that, but I don't really
> find this to be English, either, in the sense that it doesn't seem
parsable
> without tearing it apart bit by bit. Is this a normal construction for
some
> people?
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>

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