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Friday, December 25, 2009

green ideas

Chomsky gave us the sentence: COLOURLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY as a sentence which was grammatically correct but did not have any meaning for us.

 

Yet now we do have ‘green ideas’  … how long before the rest of the sentence becomes meaningful.?

Posted by Barry Sesnan at Friday, December 25, 2009

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