Holloway, Thomas wrote: >Unfortunately our GW is not that original: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously
Wikipedia has become a marvelous resource :) It's been quite a long time since I have read Chomsky. It is good to be reminded. I hope to shift my work in the not too distant future more in the direction of natural language processing. The attempt to construct an inherently meaningless expression like the one below, immediately confronts our drive to find meaning in virtually everything. One thing left out of the discussion on wikipedia is data loss and error correction. For instance, it is extremely common in email to find that words have been left out of phrases (like NOT) or that inappropriate words have been substituted or that words have been written out of order. Rather than treating such messages as meaningless, we generally find ways to transform them into something reasonable. Thus the phrase below reforms in my mind to "Colorless notions of green ideas filled her sleep as she lay there furiously dreaming." Perhaps a reference to Chomsky himself as he searched for the canonical nonsense phrase. >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John >Leo Zimmer >Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:30 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Objects vs. Types > > > >"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." > -- G Woodhouse --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- 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
