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The Pitfalls of Bad Writing
Melvin, at work, got a call from his irate neighbor.
"Keep your daughter off our property! We caught your kid sneaking onto our private oceanside retreat again!"
Melvin responded, "How do you know she did it? We get trespassers all the time!"
"It had to be her," they answered, "We followed the footprints back to your yard."
"The trespasser could have violated our property as well," countered Melvin.
"But we recognized your daughter's footprint. She has a very distinctive sole with a strange symbol on the bottom."
Melvin knew his daughter had no such shoes, but the neighbors were adamant. While emailing his daughter later that day, he mentioned the complaint to his daughter, and the impossibility of its being correct. His daughter sent back her reply. However, she is notoriously bad at writing, even with using a spell checker, and her message contained no punctuation, either. To make it more difficult, some glitch in the program scrambled the words. Can you decipher her message?
beech eye gnu its know rite shoos they're two war
"Keep your daughter off our property! We caught your kid sneaking onto our private oceanside retreat again!"
Melvin responded, "How do you know she did it? We get trespassers all the time!"
"It had to be her," they answered, "We followed the footprints back to your yard."
"The trespasser could have violated our property as well," countered Melvin.
"But we recognized your daughter's footprint. She has a very distinctive sole with a strange symbol on the bottom."
Melvin knew his daughter had no such shoes, but the neighbors were adamant. While emailing his daughter later that day, he mentioned the complaint to his daughter, and the impossibility of its being correct. His daughter sent back her reply. However, she is notoriously bad at writing, even with using a spell checker, and her message contained no punctuation, either. To make it more difficult, some glitch in the program scrambled the words. Can you decipher her message?
beech eye gnu its know rite shoos they're two war
Hint
The spell checker did not report any spelling mistakes.Answer
The words in order, with punctuation, read as follows:"Know, its rite. Eye war gnu shoos two they're beech."
These words are homophones, words that sound the same as other words but are spelled differently. Since the words are spelled correctly, the spell checker will not change them. The message should read:
"No, it's right. I wore new shoes to their beach."
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