Tuesday, 4 February 2014

wordplay - find 3 words A B C such that both A B C and B C A make sense


When I take the three words "boy", "meets" and "girl", the sentence "boy meets girl" is correct, but "meets girl boy" is not.


Could you think of three distinct words for which both expressions are correct and make sense?



Note to the downvoters: sorry if this question bothers you. This is my first one of the site. I first posted it on english.stack-exchange, but someone said it would be a better fit here. I agree that there is certainly many correct answers. I just would like one to illustrate a basic programming exercise (i.e., "rotating" the value of 3 variables).



Answer



The simple solution is to write



ADVERB, PRONOUN, VERB and then make it PRONOUN, VERB, ADVERB



For instance



Sometimes people think and People think sometimes




And



Slowly I drive and I drive slowly



Another example



Daily they read and They read daily



Another solution found by Jonathan Allan is




PRONOUN, PRONOUN, VERB and PRONOUN, VERB, PRONOUN



For instance



Anyone you know and You know anyone



And



Somebody we saw and We saw someone




Once again



Others he met and He met others



There can be words with multiple meanings which will work:



On right side (on the right hand side) and Right side on (the correct side is on)



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