[lit-ideas] Turing's Gibberish
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- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:28:02 -0500
In a message dated 1/29/2015 2:59:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Shucking corn in October,
my hands as touch as the husk,
the softness of cornsilk confuses me.
Geary:
>"touch" doesn't make any sense at all.
This genially reminds me of that genial quote by Chomsky:
ONE OF CHOMSKY'S STUDENTS (in 1965): "Colourless green ideas sleep
furiously."
CHOMSKY: Right, Fred. That doesn't make any sense at all.
Cheers,
Speranza
--- "Give me some nonsense and I'll decipher it as sense" -- Turing
(apocryphal)
TEACHER (holding Turing's note up for everyone): Only Mr. Turing would
pass notes written in gibberish.
The other students LAUGH as the Teacher drops the note in the trash.
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