Try reading this aloud to a
friend, with out letting him see the words. This works best if you just read it
naturally, maybe
practice it a few times so it's
smooth.
In mud eels are.
In clay none are.
In pine tar is.
In oak none is.
Chances are, your friend will have no
idea what you just said. He may
doubt what you said was even
English. But these are four
syntactically correct English
sentences -- they're also
semantically sound, and they're even
true!.The
deal here is that we're not used to
parsing monosyllables, so it sounds like
gibberish.