Un día llegó un grupo de hombres pálidos a nuestra aldea.
Un día llegó un grupo de elefantes pálidos a nuestra aldea.
Un día llegó un grupo de elefantes pálidos a nuestro yate. *
Un día llegó un grupo de elefantes quisquillosos a nuestro yate.
Un día llegó un par de elefantes quisquillosos a nuestro yate.
Un día estalló un par de elefantes quisquillosos junto a nuestro yate.*
" on a previous go, ready for the later explosion! Fair enough. * Notice here that I've had to change nuestra to nuestro because "yate" is masculine ... when I said that you can only change "one thing at a time" it allows for necessary adjustments like that. Similarly, at line 6, having made the elephants explode, they needed to be on, by or maybe above or under the yacht, so I needed to put "junto a" to make it right. I suppose some purists might say I could have changed "a" earlier on to "junto a
Enough of that technical stuff ! As you can see, the sentence gets transformed, slowly but surely, into something completely different, as it is gradually doing up there.
Well, I thought that this was my idea ! A comforting, important sort of thought , a feeling that I might leave this world a better place ... however, the other day I was reading a book about "grammar games"** and there it was ..... some other b******** had thought of it before me. He calls it " rub out and replace" which describes it pretty accurately.
I wasn't too worried because I have thought up all sorts of things ... birds that don't exist like the Spring Crosby, the Fartridge ( which escapes from shooters with its extra-boost propulsion system) and the Busticle, a new variant of chess called Norfolk Chess ( every 8 moves the left-hand strip of board falls into the sea, and all the pieces on it go with it ... very exciting) , lots of songs and poems, a bird-feeder you can switch off with a remote when you go out, a world-record Welsh pangram...... still, it's a bit of a blow. But I'll get over it.
OK ... music .... here's one of those "Toy Songs" where you perform a song with ( some, many) toy instruments ... here's El Pacto with "La Reina de los mares "