Word permutation¶

word_permutation · permutation · catalogued

A sentence whose words can be reordered freely while remaining grammatical, each permutation a different statement.

Provenance¶

Source: Oulipo, Atlas de littérature potentielle (1981)
Attribution: reference — attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: yes

Prompt hint¶

Write a sentence whose words stay grammatical in any order.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.