You’re missing the point. The original post kinda implies you are just picking words at random, in which case yeah most of what you say would be original. However we use language with rules dictating the order of words. Most of us talk to roughly the same people from day to day, about roughly the same things. Hell most of your sentences aren’t even original to you, much less to all of humanity that has ever lived. Of course original sentences do happen, and they’re very easy to make happen “please place that squash on the wall below the tardigrade”
I didn't mean to imply that. If the intent was to create a brand new sentence, you could do it in seconds, and though probability would still play a factor, it wouldn't be a once in a day random occurrence. I'm saying that if you live your day to day life saying probably a thousand sentences, I think it's quite likely one of those is unique. It's like the deck shuffling thing (that everytime you shuffle a deck, you're quite likely to have just made a brand new combination). There are just so many combinations that we're not running out of unspoken sentences in our lifetimes. And out of a near-infinite amount of possible sentences, getting one unused one per day is not that wild, I think.
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u/xlRadioActivelx 9d ago
You’re missing the point. The original post kinda implies you are just picking words at random, in which case yeah most of what you say would be original. However we use language with rules dictating the order of words. Most of us talk to roughly the same people from day to day, about roughly the same things. Hell most of your sentences aren’t even original to you, much less to all of humanity that has ever lived. Of course original sentences do happen, and they’re very easy to make happen “please place that squash on the wall below the tardigrade”