[Solved] A nonsense sentence that when someone asks about any part of you explain by circling back to this sentence

Solved by @Aedis@lemmy.world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

I seem to remember reading a Wikipedia article about it. The sentence is "The X Ys Z". The words are gibberish like "Smirkel ghandles bitonipt". When you ask what is X you answer "X is what Ys Z", "what does it mean to Y?" "to Y is what X does to Z".

Am I remembering correctly or is there no such canonical sentence in English?

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Aedis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d (1 reply)
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 346d

Yes, this is exactly this. Thank you so much

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d (2 replies)

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SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 347d (1 reply)

thanks, but that's not it

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d

No worries, hope you find it!

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 347d (1 reply)

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SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 347d

thanks, but that's not it

Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d (1 reply)

Plumbus?

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SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 346d

No, 😅. Thanks