Snowball sentence¶
snowball_sentence · word · validated
A snowball extended to whole sentences, each one carrying exactly one more word than the sentence before it.
Provenance¶
- Source: Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics (1968 onwards)
- Attribution:
reference— attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin - Checkability:
self— decidable from the text and its parameters alone - Attested:
codified— formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author
Details¶
- Kind: restrictive
- Languages: en
- Requires:
tokens - Deterministic: yes
Prompt hint¶
Write sentences of one word, then two, then three, and so on.
Parameters¶
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
start |
— | None |
Words in the first sentence. |
step |
integer | 1 |
Words added per sentence. |
Examples¶
growing-sentences¶
en — this text satisfies the procedure.
Go. We go. We can go.
Source: constructed example; the form is described in Word Ways
out-of-order¶
en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.
Go. We can go. We go.
Source: constructed counterexample