TUNING digest 808 -Reply

> The origin of this particular line of inquiry comes from ol Noam
"Chopper" Chomsky himself; there's a wonderful sentence whose deep
and surface structures are entirely at odds that I just can't recall at the
moment.

The sentence you're thinking of is "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
Ivor, I believe, used it as title for a piece. Sorry if someone else has
already answered this -- I'm a little behind in my mail.

Bruce Campbell
campbeb@cesmtp.ccf.org


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