source file: mills2.txt Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 05:50:29 -0700 Subject: TUNING digest 808 -Reply From: Bruce Campbell > The origin of this particular line of inquiry comes from ol Noam "Chopper" Chomsky himself; there's a wonderful sentence whose deep and surface structures are entirely at odds that I just can't recall at the moment. The sentence you're thinking of is "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Ivor, I believe, used it as title for a piece. Sorry if someone else has already answered this -- I'm a little behind in my mail. Bruce Campbell campbeb@cesmtp.ccf.org Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:50 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA21564; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:51:47 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA21531 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA16195; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 05:51:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 05:51:45 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu