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Answer these riddles and the esophagus will let you pass.

Riddles for 'Lemmy'winks.

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They are three misstakes in this sentance, what are they?

Answer1: They is meant to be There 2: Misstakes is spelt mistakes 3: And there are only two Mistakes, Not three

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[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no, 3 mistakes

the third one is misspelled sentence

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how about a fourth one, the claim about how many mistakes there are?

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

fourth mistake: above spoiler posted is only claiming two, not three mistakes

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

this is close to an interesting self-referential riddle i read about in Hofstadter:

“This sentence contains exactly threee erors.”