August 2008
3 posts
Linguist
toycunt:
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical. It was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models.
The full passage says:
“ 1.Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. 2.Furiously sleep...
