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 Belaid123
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Jun 27, 2010 15:10 pm "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" |
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It has no meaning in itself. In a greater context there might be some clues as to its meaning.
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Jun 27, 2010 16:12 pm "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" |
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| it has a meaning ! |
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:37 am "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" |
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In what language?
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:05 am "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" |
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It has no meaning and was designed to have no meaning. It is a well-known coinage by Noam Chomsky to illustrate that a sentence can be perfectly grammatical and at the same time totally meaningless.
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:24 am "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" |
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Not well known to me, but now I am enlightened. Thank you for the explanation, MM.
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| #8 (permalink) Mon Jun 28, 2010 15:03 pm "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" |
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| thank you all beeesneees and MM |
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