r/Showerthoughts • u/Vitolar8 ‎ • 10d ago

Speculation With just how many possible combinations there are, you probably say a never-before-uttered sentence every day.

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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 10d ago

almost certainly not because not every sentence is equally likely

"I'm hungry" has been said many orders of magnitudes more than "I want to french kiss an onion"

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u/gmalivuk 9d ago

My dude there are literally infinitely many possible sentences in English or any other language. That remains true no matter how restrictive the grammar is or how randomly people speak.