"Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese, composed of around 94 characters (depending on the specific version) in which every word is pronounced shi ([ʂɻ̩]) when read in modern Standard Chinese, with only the tones differing.[1] The poem was written in the 1930s by the Chinese linguist Yuen Ren Chao as a linguistic demonstration. The poem is coheren
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