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Confession: I copy some of the spam posts and use them when educating others about the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Some of those sentences follow syntactical rules yet make absolutely no sense whatsoever!!!
I've gotten some doozies off GC lately. Reminds me of attending the Opera in Beijing and watching the English translation on the screen above start out somewhat intelligible and then deteriorate into absolute gibberish and jargon. Kind of like someone opened a dictionary and just threw words at the screen; whatever stuck, stayed there.
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"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." Bertrand Russell, The Triumph of Stupidity
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