Friday, February 10, 2006

Do colorless green ideas sleep furiously?

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical. It was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models.

It may be nonsenical, but if you really really want to apply meaning, then you might apply whatever you really really wanted to apply.

Here's my application of meaning:

If you don't make an attempt, your abilities stew in flux.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/

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