Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.bsky.social

How is it that no human alive has ever uttered the sentence that I just wrote, but you still know how to understand it? That is one of those damned interesting Chomsky questions that fueled three generations of college sophomores to stay up late and bullshit one another

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Ben Green @bengreen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 21:54 UTC

The syntactic structure of the sentence was not unique though, it was a pretty common formulation. And semantics is just the syntax you don't want to bother articulating.

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