Just to let you know what I was “thinking” when I posted these:
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The gourd on this floor of the prison has made it impossible to escape. (This needed more than one letter! :smack:)
The lame stew we had for lunch has made my afternoon altogether strange.
The dog’s barf alarmed the sleeping children and they were unable to go back to sleep.
I wish I had planted the garden better.
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But there is no right answer and the idea is to improve on other manglings or even to modify others’ manglings until these sentences are completely lost to new observers.
Please forgive me for the theft and for the stupidity of thinking guard and gourd differ by only one letter.
It was these two words – I saw guard somewhere in a post where gourd would have been a bizarre fit – that gave me the idea for the thread! The fact that I am forever switching letters around as I type and in proofing those things finding how silly or obtuse the switched letters make the sentence read has always been an annoyance.
I just thought to make a game of it and see how fucked up we can do things when we do them more or less deliberately.
I’d like to see us take a fairly sensical sentence and mutate it one letter at a time into a totally different thing.
Maybe we need one starter sentence that everybody takes a crack at – one letter at a whack – to see how long before the original sense of the thing gets lost.
How’s this for a start:
The brown puppy walked into the corn field and played with the snake that was lying on the rock.