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"'''James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher'''" adalah sebuah [[kalimat]] bahasa Inggris yang dipakai untuk mendemonstrasikan [[ambiguitas|ambiguitas leksikal]] dan perlunya [[tanda baca]],<ref name="Magonet">{{cite book
| last = Magonet
| first = Jonathan
| title = A rabbi reads the Bible
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Wl9qT9T7aRYC&pg=PA19&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22&lr=#PPA19,M1
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| edition = 2nd
| year = 2004
| publisher = SCM-Canterbury Press
| isbn = 978-0-334-02952-6
| page = 19
| quote = You may remember an old classroom test in English language. What punctuation marks do you have to add to this sentence so as to make sense of it?}}</ref>
yang berperan sebagai pengganti [[intonasi (linguistik)|intonasi]],<ref name="Dundes">{{cite book
| last = Dundes
| first = Alan
| coauthors = Carl R. Pagter
| title = When you're up to your ass in alligators: more urban folklore from the paperwork empire
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=McgoMZSznBgC&pg=PA135&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| edition = Illustrated
| year = 1987
| publisher = Wayne State University Press
| isbn = 0-8143-1867-3
| page = 135
| quote = The object of this and similar tests is to make sense of a series of words by figuring out the correct intonation pattern.}}</ref>
[[tekanan (linguistik)|tekanan]], dan jeda dalam [[perbincangan]] manusia.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite book
| last = Hudson
| first = Grover
| title = Essential introductory linguistics
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5RB07Jb4tREC&pg=PA372&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| year = 1999
| publisher = [[Wiley-Blackwell]]
| isbn = 0-631-20304-4
| page = 372
| quote = Writing is secondary to speech, in history and in the fact that speech and not writing is fundamental to the human species.}}</ref>
Dalam penelitian pemrosesan informasi manusia, kalimat ini dipakai untuk menunjukkan bagaimana pembaca bergantung pada tanda baca untuk memberi arti bagi kalimat ini, terutama dalam konteks memindai beberapa baris teks.<ref name="Velde">{{cite book
| last = van de Velde
| first = Roger G.
| title = Text and thinking: on some roles of thinking in text interpretation
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=sa2Ir6WQtcQC&pg=PA44&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22#PPA43,M1
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| edition = Illustrated
| year = 1992
| publisher = [[Walter de Gruyter]]
| isbn = 3-11-013250-8
| page = 43
| quote = In scanning across lines, readers also make use of the information parts carried along with the punctuatuion markes: a period, a dash, a colon, a semicolon or a comma may signal different degrees of integration/separation between the groupings.}}</ref> Kalimat ini kadang ditunjukkan sebagai teka-teki yang dijawab dengan menambahkan tanda baca.
Kalimat ini berarti: Ada dua murid, James dan John, yang dalam ujian bahasa Inggris diminta mendeskripsikan seorang pria yang, pada masa lalu, pernah menderita demam. John menulis "The man had a cold" yang disalahkan oleh gurunya, sementara James menulis jawaban yang benar, "The man had had a cold." Karena benar, jawaban James telah membuat gurunya senang.
| publisher = Financial Times
| quote = HAD up to here? So were readers of last week's column, invited to punctuate "Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiners approval."|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20090504010846/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-20149031_ITM|archivedate=2009-05-04}}</ref><ref name="Jackson">{{cite book
| last = Jackson
| first = Howard
| title = Grammar and Vocabulary: A Resource Book for Students
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=wPq6bSd-CwEC&pg=PA123&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| year = 2002
| publisher = [[Routledge]]
| isbn = 0-415-23170-1
| page = 123
| quote = Finally, verbal humour is often an ingredient of puzzles. As part of an advertising campaign for its educational website <learn.co.uk>, the ''Guardian'' (for 3 january 2001) included the following familiar grammatical puzzle.}}</ref><ref name="acmicpc">[http://acmicpc-live-archive.uva.es/nuevoportal/data/problem.php?p=3802 3802 - Operator Jumble]</ref> atau bahan ujian,<ref name="Magonet"/><ref name="Dundes"/> yang harus dicari maknanya dengan menambahkan [[tanda baca]] yang tepat. [[Hans Reichenbach]] memakai kalimat serupa pada tahun 1947 sebagai latihan bagi si pembaca ("John where Jack..."), untuk mengilustrasikan berbagai tingkatan bahasa, terutama [[bahasa objek]] dan [[metabahasa]].<ref name="Reichenbach">Reichenbach, Hans (1947) Elements of symbolic logic. London: Collier-MacMillan. Exercise 3-4, p.405; solution p.417.</ref>
Dalam penelitian yang memperlihatkan bagaimana orang-orang menafsirkan informasi dalam lingkungannya, kalimat ini dipakai untuk mendemonstrasikan bagaimana keputusan yang seenaknya bisa mengubah arti secara drastis, analogis terhadap bagaimana perubahan tanda baca dan kutipan dalam kalimat menunjukkan bahwa guru bisa memilih antara jawaban James dan jawaban John. ('James, while John had had "had," had...', atau 'James, while John had had "had had,"...')<ref name="Weick">{{cite book
| last = Weick
| first = Karl E.
| title = Making Sense of the Organization
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=agZzW4mqS4wC&pg=PA186&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22#PPA186,M1
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| edition = 8th
| year = 2005
| publisher = [[Wiley-Blackwell]]
| isbn = 0-631-22319-3
| pages = 186–187
| quote = Once a person has generated/bracketed part of the stream, then the activities of punctuation and connection (parsing) can occur in an effort to transform the raw data into information.}}</ref>
Kalimat ini juga dipakai untuk memperlihatkan ketidakjelasan [[semantik]] kata "had", sekaligus mendemonstrasikan [[perbedaan pakai-sebut|perbedaan antara memakai kata dan menyebutkan kata]].<ref name="Lecercle">{{cite book
| last = Lecercle
| first = Jean-Jacques
| title = The violence of language
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=sNUNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA86&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22#PPA86,M1
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| edition = Illustrated
| year = 1990
| publisher = [[Routledge]]
| isbn = 0-415-03431-0
| page = 86
| quote = Suppose I decide that I wish to make up a sentence containing eleven occurrences of the word 'had' in a row ...}}</ref>
Kalimat ini juga dipakai sebagai contoh sampai serumit manakah suatu bahasa bisa terbentuk namun tetap benar [[sintaks|secara sintaksis]].<ref name="Hollin">{{cite book
| last = Hollin
| first = Clive R.
| title = Contemporary Psychology: An Introduction
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=DTpm_oT51aQC&pg=PA34&dq=%22Had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had+had%22
| accessdate = 2009-04-30
| edition = Illustrated
| year = 1995
| publisher = [[Routledge]]
| isbn = 0-7484-0191-1
| page = 34
| quote = Do readers make use of the ways in which sentences are structured?}}</ref>
Jasper Fforde memakai variasi frasa ini dalam bukunya ''The Well of Lost Plots'', menunjukkan pemakaian potensialnya dalam buku-buku biasa (serta menekankan sampai "semembingungkan" manakah suatu bahasa bisa terbentuk namun benar secara sintaksis):
<blockquote>"Okay" said the Bellman, whose head was in danger of falling apart like a chocolate orange, "let me get this straight: ''David Copperfield'', unlike ''Pilgrim’s Progress'', which had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had TGC’s approval?"<ref name="Fforde">
{{cite book
| last = Fforde
| first = Jasper
| title = The Well of Lost Plots
| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7FBhAt0-kGAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+well+of+lost+plots&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mu11T622PMa20QXj17ySDQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20well%20of%20lost%20plots&f=false
| accessdate = 2012-04-30
| year = 2003
| publisher = [[Hodder & Stoughton Ltd]]
| quote = 'Okay' said the Bellman, whose head was in danger of falling apart like a chocolate orange, 'let me get this straight: David Copperfield, unlike Pilgrim’s Progress, which had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had TGC’s approval?'}}</ref></blockquote>
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