Friday, January 27, 2006

Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously

What's wrong with the title?

5 comments:

Tina said...

How can green be colourless? :P

Linguist-in-Waiting 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.

Maurina 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

naz said...

The mind boggles.

Snap said...

haha.. the stucture of the sentense is grammatical, but meaningless. =)