Hi Heather: I am extremely busy right now and am unable to reply to your e-mail message, and address the concerns you may have about the validity of "Fish fish ..." as a sentence. This whole thing got started when I was chatting with a friend of mine who happens to be a Scrabble player (and has a pretty good World Ranking, if I may add).I mentioned to him how a particular word (I forget which one) when repeated many times is actually a perfectly valid English sentence. We ended up spending some time chatting about this. I think I have succeeded in convincing him about the validity of "Fish fish ... " as a sentence.
Not only is "Fish fish ... " a sentence, it has multiple meanings. I seen this fact mentioned in either Krugman's post or on DeLong's two posts on the topic. You can take alook at the posts to see if you are convinced. Otherwise, feel free to email me and I can try to convince you offline. In the meantime, you can take a look at my List to see if the posts on there convince you. I knew about language parsing and grammars when I was in high school, when my other class-mates didn't. I know that it would take some effort on my part to comvince them if I met them today, but that is mostly because none of them have spent time in computer language design committees. I realize that this is a non-intuitive observation, but I do not think that it is an incorrect one. Anand On Thu Jun 2nd, 2011 8:54 PM EDT Heather Madrone wrote: >This whole thread seems a little fishy to me. > > >-- Heather Madrone ([email protected]) >http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com > >I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code. > > >
