Practice Sentences

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Sentence #3: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

... God ...

The tablets of the Ten Commandments are an obvious symbol for Yahweh, God the Father, but because we'll be using this to indicate other Judeo-Christian objects such as the Bible, let's stick a circle over top because it's a nice, generic, non-denominational, non-offensive symbol for order, totality, divinity and/or creation.

... is ...

Although technically this sign means "equals" (that is, exactly identical) a person scribbling a quick note would most likely use it to mean "is".

... my ...

{of}[me]

... witness ...

[hand][truth]

... I thought ...

From cartoons.

... it was possible for ...

From symbolic logic

... turkeys ...

... to fly.

The wings that are pinned on a pilot's uniforn with the grammatical glyph of an infinitive verb.

Sentence #4: There's no basement at the Alamo.

There's no ...

This comes from symbolic logic.

... basement ...

[Under], like most of my prepositions, is just a straight forward illustration of the relationship between two objects. [Ground] come from electrical diagrams. [Room] comes from architectural blueprints.

... at ...

... the Alamo ...

"Alamo" means "cottonwood" in Spanish. Let's use [cotton] (based on the "100% cotton" label) + [wood] (from alchemy). To distinquish The Alamo from just any old cottonwood tree, let's point out that we mean the Alamo Mission. Mission come from the Latin for a sending. To the glyph for [send] (borrowed from my e-mail program), we'll add a shepherd's crook to indicate that we're sending a pastor (Pastor is Latin for shepherd.) This literally translates as Cottonwood Pastor-sending.

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