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[Solved] A nonsense sentence that when someone asks about any part of you explain by circling back to this sentence (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/tipofmytongue@lemmy.world

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Solved by @Aedis@lemmy.world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

I seem to remember reading a Wikipedia article about it. The sentence is "The X Ys Z". The words are gibberish like "Smirkel ghandles bitonipt". When you ask what is X you answer "X is what Ys Z", "what does it mean to Y?" "to Y is what X does to Z".

Am I remembering correctly or is there no such canonical sentence in English?

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thanks, but that's not it

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No worries, hope you find it!