Friday, January 27, 2006

Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

What's wrong with the title?

4 comments:

Tina D said...

How can green be colourless? :P

Jeruen said...

Now where did you get that?

Actually, this was an example sentence used by none other than Noam Chomsky, when he made scathing remarks on B. F. Skinner's article Verbal Behavior, which signaled the end of Behaviorism in the sciences.

Unknown said...

LIW, we're doing language acquisition now! :D And we have just finished Chomsky vs Skinner. Fun fun!

Tina, how can ideas sleep? hehe

Anonymous said...

The mind boggles.