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[rocknload]

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

What's it mean? The answer I have to give in my midterm is, sadly, nothing, as I'll have to describe it or something like it as "syntactically correct and semantically meaningless" but come on, I bet someone can think of something!

Comments

[surelyyoujest.livejournal.com]

It possibly has something to do with language being innate for humans? But I'm kind of fuzzy on how. A quick Google run pulled up a discussion on it, and I think the July 17 comment down there sums it up nicely: http://www.usingenglish.com/poll/47.html

[maxiboom.livejournal.com]

It means desperate jubilance shouldn't orchestrate. Not when timeless hours suspend a majority.

[sunsetsred.livejournal.com]

I think making up words that have meaning based on context is more fun than ridding words that have meaning of context.

[sunsetsred.livejournal.com]

It means purple prose can be both colorless and green at the same time.

[penginchan.livejournal.com]

Simple! It means I am amazing and you are not.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Kill yourself. Now.

[penginchan.livejournal.com]

No.