http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts 2003-09-11T16:57:29+00:00 http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-535 2003-09-11T16:57:29+00:00 2003-09-11T16:57:29+00:00 <p>See? I could have looked that up, but isn&#8217;t it more fun to tell me? :p</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-532 2003-09-11T15:33:45+00:00 2003-09-11T15:33:45+00:00 <p>That quote is from <a href="http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=14995">Noam</a> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html">Chomsky</a>, the guy who pretty much invented modern linguistics. He designed the sentence to illustrate the difference between syntactic and semantic sense. Syntacticly, the sentence is perfect. But it makes no sense symantically.</p> Mithrandir http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-531 2003-09-11T15:33:00+00:00 2003-09-11T15:33:00+00:00 Found a place where you can actually listen to the <a href="http://www.tigersushi.com/site/player/OnDemand/theplayer.jsp?RcdId=1140&#38;FmtId=2&#38;SongId=4680&#38;RemixId=0#">first 30 seconds of the track</a>. <p> A moist, dripping sound of discoursing anvils that are only concerned with mere style and effect &#8211; rhetorical &#8211; since, judging by the sound, no red-hot iron is actually forged.</p> GreyStork http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-530 2003-09-11T15:20:26+00:00 2003-09-11T15:20:26+00:00 <p>And the son of the sun-disc, or I could be misinterpreting.</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-529 2003-09-11T14:52:04+00:00 2003-09-11T14:52:04+00:00 <p>Amon Tobin is my hero.</p> wonko http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-528 2003-09-11T12:49:03+00:00 2003-09-11T12:49:03+00:00 <p>It has a beat, I can dance to it!</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-527 2003-09-11T12:48:41+00:00 2003-09-11T12:48:41+00:00 <p>Well, actually, I saw the premise that it <em>had</em> no meaning as a challenge, and THEREFORE read in deep inner meaning.<br /> <br /> And neither of my grampas ever told me that.<br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /> Lil Miss Contrary</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-526 2003-09-11T12:21:21+00:00 2003-09-11T12:21:21+00:00 Amon Tobin: Supermodified &#8211; Keepin&#8217; It Steel <p> I rest my case.</p> GreyStork http://faerye.net/post/colorless-green-thoughts#comment-525 2003-09-11T11:34:21+00:00 2003-09-11T11:34:21+00:00 <p>Funny. When you read it, you saw deep inner meaning. When I read it, I thought, &#8220;Well, that sentence obviously doesn&#8217;t make any sense. I&#8217;ll ignore it and move on.&#8221;</p> <p> Reminds me of an old old poem that everyone&#8217;s grandfather tells them, in some form or another: </p> <p> One bright day in the middle of the night<br /> Two dead boys went out to fight<br /> The turned their backs and faced each other<br /> Drew their swords and shot each other<br /> A deaf policeman heard the noise<br /> And came and killed those two dead boys<br /> If you don&#8217;t believe this lie is true<br /> Ask the blind man, he saw it too </p> wonko