--- Marcus Anthony Smith wrote:
> Take a sentence like:
> He is fat.
>
> Append to that the string "John said that " to get
> John said that he is fat.
>
> Keep prefixing "X said that", replacing X by a new name each time. There
> is no linguistically interesting limit to how many times you can repeat
> that process, meaning that the language mechanism can generate an infinite
> number of sentence.
The same thing as:
missile
anti-missile missile
anti-anti-missile missile missile
etc.
Jan
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