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27 People Who Truly, Honestly, Have A Gift For The English Language

A standing ovation for all the linguistic geniuses in this post, please.

In case you didn't know, there's a subreddit called r/BrandNewSentence where people share posts that are so creative, so beautifully worded — so unhinged — that they're pretty sure they just read a brand new sentence. Here are some of the best posts from this year:

1. I'm glad we have a term for this now.

That’s the homie in law

— Definitely Not Doug (@DougDefinitely) June 25, 2023
Twitter: @DougDefinitely

2. I just wanna say "The Wilhelm Scream of dead fictional wives" is my favorite phrase I read this year. Bravo to @otherhappyplace.

why do movies keep doing this shot where the hero has a dead wife and they do a flash back where they are ethereally under a white sheet together, it's really weird. it's like the wilheim scream of dead fictional wives pic.twitter.com/5TSwkoc7QX

— 🦋The Other Happy Place🦋 (@otherhappyplace) April 19, 2023
Twitter: @otherhappyplace

3. I love this parrot's title, and also its ability to spread acceptance through its own burning hatred.

Happy pride from the trans affirming misogynist parrot pic.twitter.com/OWLPpD77DS

— ms. entertainment (@hersterics) June 3, 2023
Twitter: @hersterics

4. "Permanently Ratatouilled" isn't a phrase that we should understand, but we do. Perfectly.

if i could be permanently ratatouilled i would. just relinquish all control. let the rat do it. im done

— zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg) February 5, 2023
Twitter: @zachsilberberg

5. That's it. That's what it is.

"Bro I ain't gonna write fan fiction about working at your company"

6. I, too, want to catch a flying hot brat.

At my first @Bucks game last night and thought I caught a shirt they fired into the stands out of a cannon. Turns out it was a hot bratwurst. Never in my life did I ever think I’d catch a flying hot brat but here we are. pic.twitter.com/Z0xDC5XPiY

— Tom Pigs (@sauced7) January 18, 2023
Twitter: @sauced7

7. Personally, my "talk on the phone pants" are sweatpants with a hole in them.

Once got threatened with "disciplinary action" for wearing jeans instead of khakis at a telesales job and told my boss to just fire me because I wasn't buying a special pair of "talk on the phone pants."

They ended up just changing the dress code to "no profanity."

— Wirefraud Boys Chat (@MazzaDammit) January 19, 2023
Twitter: @MazzaDammit

8. Suck it, microbiome!

Aww my microbiome fancies some high quality fermented foods does it? A little kombucha perhaps? I don’t give a shit, I’m the megabiome, I do what I want. I’m having a fanta lemon. I’ll swallow coins

— David McIver (@BigDavidMcIver) February 23, 2023
Twitter: @BigDavidMcIver

9. You just know the position would be called something like "croaker," too.

"The rule/function of the golden snitch in quidditch is stupid and completely ruins what would otherwise be an awesome sport to watch."

10. There's so much to choose from here.

"Looking for a VERY compact man to ride on my shoulders so I look cool"

11. That really does paint a picture.

"People react to me dining alone as if I were naked and eating a live animal's entrails while screaming the lyrics to the Klondike bar commercial"

12. Fun fact: You can sing "final boss cop in a goth prom dress" to Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand."

court is all like “place your non shit-wiping hand on this book of half-remembered ghost stories told by inbred winos and promise not to lie to this final boss cop in a goth prom dress.” ok sure man whatever you say.

— Kyle Kinane (@kylekinane) August 15, 2022
Twitter: @kylekinane

13. This is absolutely accurate.

"I have a corgi, which is basically a really expensive potato that barks at the wind."

14. I mean, what else would you call it?

"I literally am a piano waterer & tbh I kinda feel like I'm thriving"

15. Really? Not bologna?

"ive always found pastrami to be the most sensual of the cured meats"

16. Catch me staring blankly at a wall for an hour after hearing this.

My GF said "The message from Shrek is undercut because Shrek is still pretty attractive" like 20 hours ago and it only just now clicked that that is an absolutely fucking insane take

— Angel of Mists and Mirrors (@ChazakielDoremi) May 18, 2023
Twitter: @ChazakielDoremi

17. "Very Frenchly."

Was in Paris on Friday night and a handsome French man was flirting with me and I asked him what his name was and he said (very Frenchly) “Ah you will be disappointed” and I thought what a silly thing to say and then he said “it is Kevin” and you know what? I was disappointed.

— molly (@mollyEatsTofu) January 15, 2023
Twitter: @mollyEatsTofu

18. Can't wait for the sequel to The Queen's Gambit.

"the main thing that puts me off of playing chess is that there is 2000 years of gameplay that hundreds of people with higher IQs than me have spent thousands of hours studying the history of..."

19. First garlic, now this??

Imagine you were a vampire nowhere near the Middle East and don’t know who Jesus is but the day after he dies you gotta figure out why lower case t’s started hurting.

— Andrew Nadeau (@TheAndrewNadeau) July 2, 2021
Twitter: @TheAndrewNadeau

20. *Stands up and aggressively applauds*

someone asks, none of y'all know what propaganda actually is do you, and a person responds, it's when a british person takes a good look at something

21. I see no problem with this logic.

if you don't find farts funny, you are choosing to live in a world with less joy and the same amount of farts

22. What.

headline says, 3000 crocodiles have sex after mistakes helicopter sounds for mating calls

23. I'm just hearing a cartoon "bonk" sound now.

bdsm is impossible to take seriously, it's literally looney tunes sex, tom and jerry ass

24. Feed them!

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats

25. Sometimes the truth is the hardest thing to speak.

vinegar is crazy man. the wario of water

— ● Will Wiesenfeld ● (@BATHSmusic) October 15, 2023
Twitter: @BATHSmusic

26. And yet, they always do.

"surely the conses wont quence"

27. And finally, may we all have the pizazz of this Grubhub driver in the new year.

this is your grubhub driver, thomas, seek me outside for i have come