Currently circulating on Facebook and on Chinese social media are seemingly impenetrable sentences with the same character repeated numerous times. When you first look at them, your eyes glaze over and you can't make any sense of them. But if you slow down and think about such sentences, you usually can figure them out without too much effort. In fact, I could read some of the following right off upon first encounter. Others required more effort before I was able to crack them.
Although it looks formidable, of the six sample sentences treated in this post, this one was easiest for me. I could understand it at one go. [N.B.: In my treatment of these sentences, I first give the Pinyin with spaces between each syllable, then repeat the Pinyin with requisite parsing and punctuation.]
1.
míng míng míng míng míng bái bái bái xǐ huān tā dàn tā jiù shì bù shuō
明明明明明白白白喜欢他但他就是不说
Míngmíng míngmíng míngbái Báibái xǐhuān tā, dàn tā jiùshì bù shuō.
"Mingming clearly knew that Baibai liked her, but he just wouldn't say it."
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