{"id":230,"date":"2013-07-29T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/linguistics-krazy-korner-lion-eating-poet-in-the-stone-den\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T07:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T07:39:34","slug":"linguistics-krazy-korner-lion-eating-poet-in-the-stone-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/07\/linguistics-krazy-korner-lion-eating-poet-in-the-stone-den\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Krazy Korner: “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”"},"content":{"rendered":"
“The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den” is a 92-character modern poem written in Classical Chinese by Yuen Ren Chao, in which every syllable has the sound shi<\/I> (in different tones) when read in modern Mandarin Chinese. [Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>]<\/div>\n

In other words, the following series of sush<\/i>es is this poem:<\/p>\n

\nIn a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions.

\nHe often went to the market to look for lions.

\nAt ten o’clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market.

\nAt that time, Shi had just arrived at the market.

\nHe saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die.

\nHe brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.

\nThe stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.

\nAfter the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions.

\nWhen he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.

\nTry to explain this matter.
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