I once wrote an entire paper like this, but for some reason it was not accepted for credit. It was fun, though.
It all started when a Noun Phrase offered a rather feisty Dynamic Verb a Prepositional Complement. She thought the future perfect had finally arrived. "We've been living in synonymy for years," she said. "It's about time we conjugated."
Excellent. And that's before you even get to Chomsky's weird hang-ups. (Seriously, government, binding, domination, suicidal greed? Are these terms you'd expect an anarchist to use in his pet theory?)
I once wrote an entire paper like this, but for some reason it was not accepted for credit. It was fun, though.
ReplyDeleteIt all started when a Noun Phrase offered a rather feisty Dynamic Verb a Prepositional Complement. She thought the future perfect had finally arrived. "We've been living in synonymy for years," she said. "It's about time we conjugated."
("Oh, absolutely," simpered a passing Modal.)
...and so on. Linguistics has all the best words.
Excellent. And that's before you even get to Chomsky's weird hang-ups. (Seriously, government, binding, domination, suicidal greed? Are these terms you'd expect an anarchist to use in his pet theory?)
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