tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 27 20:22:29 1997
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RE: defective verbs
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: defective verbs
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 97 02:53:59 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Some linguists consider the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep
> furiously" to be ungrammatical even though it breaks no rules you learn in
> grammar school, because it makes no sense: ideas can be neither green nor
> colorless (and certainly not both at once), nor can they sleep, nor do so
> furiously.
What about superintelligent shades of the color blue?
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