Re: good introduction to formal grammars

On Aug 9, 4:29 am, Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Adam Funk (in sci.lang):

On 2008-08-08, Michael Press wrote:

["Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."]

From a human perspective, if I say that to you, you may rightly
respond, "Huh? Ideas aren't like that, and they don't sleep!" (How
many of Grice's maxims would it violate?)

I can imagine a story where young people enter the land of ideas, which are
rectangular green things, wake them up and chat with them.

metaphor/poetry
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