A little brainteaser I wrote:
Writing 'not unlike' is not unlike writing 'like', unlike writing 'unlike', which, unlike writing 'not unlike', is not like writing 'like'.
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #WordPlay
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We don’t say a lot the way we write a lo, if we did it wouldn’t mean a lot because we say alot but write a lot.
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We don't want no double negatives.
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I like it! ;) 💗
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Irregardless of what you not unlike.
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darnit I literally just mastered the Buffalo sentence and now this ...
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You’ve twisted my brain into a knot…..
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And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right Where I belong I'm right Where I belong
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Like, yeah.
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I do not unlike your brain teaser.
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Pretty much similar in most cases…
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🤯
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It's better read aloud!
Reminds me of:
How much work could a network net, if a network could net work?
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I think, like, you grew up in, like, the 1990s.
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Now my brain hurts like when I look at an Escher drawing. You are diabolical. Or maybe you are just not undiabolical...
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You had me in the first half. Unlike others, I had to read three times before I could like the second half.
Time for more coffee.
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For this alone I will follow you...
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Very nice, but I think I would have ended with "is unlike writing 'like'." Thanks for the fun!
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Likely story 😂
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Thank you for the entertaining thinky pain
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I like it.
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Irregardless, its not unlike other very unique examples of SAME. Alot.
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Exactly!
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How could I not like this?
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I don't unlike it
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👍 I LIKE It.
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Just tell me which one to write 🤣🤣
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Where’s the unlike button when you need it?
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My brain damage kicked in half way through and I think I now have a blown fuse.
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🥇 Friend you win the internet of English this day, 11.19.2025
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now my brain is broken.
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Mathematical too.
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Instructions unclear, ended up subscribed
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Love it! Thanks! To me a minute.
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Cute
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this is so bad honetly
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I confess I did not find this unenjoyable.
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Thanks, I hate it.
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Exactly!. Could not have said it better.
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Kind of like "small, little" or "so, therefore" which are redundant or when people say "They "all but" waged war" when in fact, they did wage war.
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Where's the unlike button? 😆
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Double negatives, meaning an intensified negative, are normal in Spanish. For the most part, the idea that a double negative implies a positive in English--what I'll call the "algebraic" double negative--is a grammar myth. "I don't have no money," good or bad English, means "I have no money."
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I do not unlike this
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If you remember something you didn’t forget it. If you forget something you didn’t remember it. If you don’t foget it and don’t remember it, you never knew it. —Margaret Montoya
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Huh😳😂
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"The missile knows where it is at all times It knows this because it knows where it isn't..."
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Ouch.
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It was a mistake to read this at the end of a night shift omg 😵💫
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[brain explodes]
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Lol.
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Not unlike fluffing a pillow to please the arbitrary demands of publishers for specific word counts.
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K this reminds me of when people say "there's a non-zero chance" that....whatever
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James where John had had had had had had had had had had had a better meaning
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
(The only two things I remember from my Linguistics course 😉)
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not unintelligible
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The answer is …yes!
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I almost need a Tylenol after trying to read that. 😁
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You are not wrong!!🤣🤣
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia
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You made my brain quiver.
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My brain......
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Welp, my weekend is now about diagramming this thing.
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I often come across what I call “ the historical double negative “ e.g. “ it’s not entirely uncertain “! WTF do you mean?
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I like it!
How about this one: I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Me no Leica
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Brain freeze!
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I haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet this morning (it's 7 am), do I am not even going to try to figure this out... Maybe in an hour or two...
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Stealing that!
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And that is Katabasis in a nutshell.
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Ouch
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@poetickate.bsky.social ,thought you'd appreciate this wordplay.
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Bloody brilliant.
If I had room, I would get the Latin translation as ink:
Scribere 'non dissimile' non est dissimile scribendo 'sicut', dissimile scribendo 'dissimile', quae, dissimilis scribendo 'non dissimile', non est simile scribendo 'sicut'.
(Latin scholars are welcome to edit the above!)
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🤫😝
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Now I have a headache
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Unstop it.
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In the immortal words of Major Frank Burns: "It's nice to be nice to the nice."
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English is bizarre.
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It's unlike woodchucks by the seashore, then?
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Exactly!
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The answer of course, is 'orange.'
ALSO, I hate you SO much for this.
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The one-l lama, He's a priest. The two-l llama, He's a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn't any Three-l lllama.
— Ogden Nash
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I don't hate it.
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This is not unlikeable. Well done.
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I hate double negatives!!!!!
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Orwell's Politics and the English Language cured me of "not unlike."
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Aaaaargh!
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I think I love you 😘
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Just stop. LOL
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I am quite gruntled with this take!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hSi...
I'm So Glad
YouTube video by Cream - Topic
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Love it!!!
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From first inspiration to finely crafted, how long did that take?
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My brain hurts.
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👏👏👏
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That was fun to read. :)
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But not unlike is not like. It is rather like like, but not really like. However, not unlike is more like like than like unlike.
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"Brainteaser" proceeds to melt your brain
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Yes.
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I remember saying that exact thing when I was really really drunk
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Oh please.. we have enough problems!😡🤣🤣
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Like, I wouldn’t unlike a graphic depiction of that brain teaser.
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excuse me, i have to go lie down
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i know this one!!! It’s Kamala speaking 😂
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🤦🏼♀️ lol
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Good one. I don’t unlike it.
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Likely not.
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😵 🥴
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Words to live by 🫡
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Banger
