"Colourless green ideas sleep furiously."
— Nonsense
January 1, 1970
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Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (1957) (This is an example of a sentence which, although grammatically acceptable, is without meaning.).
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Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (1957) (This is an example of a sentence which, although grammatically acceptable, is without meaning.).