---------- Original Message -----------
From: Greg Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:18:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Objects vs. Types
> Incidentally, I think Chomsky accomplished a lot more with that example
> than he (at least initially) intended. It was sopposed to be an example
> of a syntactically well-formed sentence that is otherwise
> nonsensical. But is there more to it than that? While we do not
> often speak of sleeping "furiously", wse do speak of sleeping
> "quietly". But "furiously" and "quietly" can hardly be said to be semantically
> unrelated. Do ideas sleep? Well, this is certainly not idiomatic in
> English, but it is not too much of a stretch to imagine what a dormant
> (or sleeping) idea might be. Indeed, the whole point of this message
> is that there seems to be a dormant idea somehow implicit in that choice
> of examples!
Well, dormant in <<myself>> certainly.
Enlightenment remains elusive,
but always worth the quest.
I'm always thankful for the variety and depth of whatever it is that makes
Hardhats so compelling.
Thanks,
grandpaZ
Healthcare, a human right
AND
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
-- N Chomsky
-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO
September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA
Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf
_______________________________________________
Hardhats-members mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
