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