language task thingy

[flowery_twat]

Hey, so can I ask a favor? I'm trying to estimate how long a particular experiment will take. The experiment consists of reading sentence fragments like: "Before the player pitched..." and then completing them in some way that seems reasonable. If any of you have a few minutes on your hands, could you do the following? Copy-past the 10 sentence

Comments

[anonymous]

Two and a half but they were very random and unthought out:

While the client emailed his thoughts turned to the joy of licking a stamp
While the uncle tuned his piano, his wife bought ear plugs
After the detective stopped searching the apartment, it looked tidier than it had before he began
When the weightlifter grimaced the pain on his face shone through the sweat
Before the cowboy tied the rope he dusted off his hands
While the customer sighed the assistant filed her nails
When the ambassador arrived the party began
After the sculptor died he left one last piece uncompleted
When the scientist destroyed the atom the world he knew died around him
As the guest lounged the hostess fretted

[flowery_twat]

Thanks, those are great. Exactly what I'm hoping for (actually way more interesting than I'm expecting). Cool. :-)

[minim_calibre]

Three minutes, of which at least one was spent on what the cowboy was up to with those ropes and that other cowboy that wasn't explicitly mentioned.

[flowery_twat]

You lot are *so* predictable. Give you a cowboy and a rope and you go all pervy on me. For shame! :-)

Thanks.

[wolfling]

Three minutes, including typing them down. :)