I collect exceptionally badly written essays from my students. Here’s a goodie from the past:
“My family visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo last summer. The thing that impressed me the most were these 2 giant statues of some pharaoh. There was a doorway between them. The statues were identical, especially the one on the right. I think the statue on the right must have been made first. That’s because even though the statue on the left was identical to the one on the right, the statue on the right was even more identical.”
Hmmm. I have a couple of cousins in Cincinnati who are archaeologists and who have been to the Egyptian Museum. I’ll check with them and see what they say. They are professionals, so I’m sure they will know which of these statues is ‘more identical’ than the other.