Re: colorless green ideas

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:


> In view of the richness of our language and the wide use of metaphor in
> 'ordinary' English (one doesn't have o resort to 'poetry'), I wonder if it
> is, in fact, possible to produce a sentence using standard English words
> in acceptable grammatically formed sentence that is completely stupid from
> a semantic point of view. Now there's a challenge  :)
The easy solution would seem to be oxymorons: He's got a five-wheeled trike.

                                                          Andreas

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