Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Linguistics Quotation Favorites - Nonsensical Semantics


"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
-Noam Chomsky

Syntactically sound but semantically senseless sentence created by Noam Chomsky in 1957 to demonstrate the need for more structured models of grammar.

1 comment:

leem said...

There's always something furious about the green things in our levels of experience....

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