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sionnach commented on the word colorless green ideas sleeping furiously
Parkvall illustration
December 4, 2008
sionnach commented on the word colorless green ideas sleeping furiously
I wonder why "image search" returns nothing here.
December 4, 2008
rolig commented on the word colorless green ideas sleeping furiously
"It can only be the thought of verdure to come, which prompts us in the autumn to buy these dormant white lumps of vegetable matter covered by a brown papery skin, and lovingly to plant them and care for them. It is a marvel to me that under this cover they are labouring unseen at such a rate within to give us the sudden awesome beauty of spring flowering bulbs. While winter reigns the earth reposes but these colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
– C. M. Street, entry in the Stanford University give-a-context-to-Chomsky's-sentence contest (1985). Quoted on Wikipedia.
December 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word colorless green ideas sleeping furiously
Also see colorless green ideas sleep furiously (which is the actual Chomsky sentence).
Sionnach: Love the illustration!
December 4, 2008
plethora commented on the word colorless green ideas sleeping furiously
I now better understand your comment on where is the green sheep, 'nach.
December 4, 2008