"Quine" this

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Doug Hofstaeder commented on/invented the concept of the “quined” sentence.
Essentially a quine is a sentence fragment that , due to an inherently self referential structure, only makes sense when added to itself as a quote…

the fragment “Makes sense, only when followed by itself” only makes sense when it is doubled, without the quote marks on the second part.

ie
“Makes sense, only when followed by itself” makes sense, only when followed by itself.

or
“Talks about itself” talks about itself.

What quines can YOU create?

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“Has one verb” has one verb.

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“Can’t stand alone” can’t stand alone.

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Borrowing the handle of an ex-(?) Doper:

Eats_Crayons eats crayons.

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[QUOTE=hocow]
“Can’t stand alone” can’t stand alone.
[/QUOTE]
Oooh, I see what you did there. Good one.

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“Has been quined” has been quined.

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Great responses everyone!

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“Has three words”
“Has eighteen letters”
“Could be the second line in a sonnet” (if one is forgiving with scansion)
“Is what I just said”

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“Former Voidoids guitarist Robert Quine” … uh, doesn’t really work.

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The more common usage of quine is as a noun to describe a computer program that prints out a copy of itself when executed. See here for details.

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“Is in English” is in English.
“Does not contain an adjective but contains a conjunction” does not contain an adjective but contains a conjunction.

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“Went” went.

“Left” left.

“Departed” departed.

“Exists” exists.

“Is” is. (Probably the shortest one possible.)

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“I said” I said

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"Like, so I said ‘I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity, like so’ ", I said, as I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity.

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
"Like, so I said ‘I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity, like so’ ", I said, as I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity.
[/QUOTE]

Doesn’t look exactly like a Quine, because the second instance of the sentence is not exactly the same as the first… Even though the whole is quite nice, I have to say!

Just my 2 eurocent!

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[QUOTE=JoseB]
Doesn’t look exactly like a Quine, because the second instance of the sentence is not exactly the same as the first… Even though the whole is quite nice, I have to say!

Just my 2 eurocent!
[/QUOTE]

Indeed. Corrected version:

"Like, so I said ‘As I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity like so’ ", I said, as I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity.

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Indeed. Corrected version:

"Like, so I said ‘As I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity like so’ ", I said, as I started to tell my killer joke at the office, the one that always gets a huge laugh and makes people roll with hilarity.
[/QUOTE]
Still not there. Your first part starts with “Like, so” which isn’t in the second part.

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[QUOTE=Asimovian]
Still not there. Your first part starts with “Like, so” which isn’t in the second part.
[/QUOTE]

Yes, it is. Look closer.

I’m assuming we’re flexible on matters of puncutation.

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
I’m assuming we’re flexible on matters of puncutation.
[/QUOTE]

The parts inside and outside the quotes have to be identical. What you have is clever, but it’s not a quine.

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Pretty boring and routine, but to be expected to pop up at some point:

“does not accurately describe itself” does not accurately describe itself.