Grandeur of the English Language - beauty of English language or complexity?

This is a question from Yahoo Answers. The asker asks Grandeur of the English Language: Is is beauty of English language or complexity? He posted an example- "Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the eye yesterday." The Query: What is this word? The Answer: The word is "ONLY". The Message: 1.ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.) 2.I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.) 3.I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.) 4.I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.) 5.I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.) 6.I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye..) 7.I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.) 8.I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)" Is the beauty or complexity of the English language? Can you come up with another such example? All rights belong to ostom, Use of this post is allowed provided this link is present at the end of the article http://getdirectclient.blogspot.com