[NU Sports] Fact-checking on an AP wire story

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Man!  I write books and I still don't understand this.  Wasn't the media 
guide's statement just an old-fashioned dangling participle?  How many 
points did the Cats give up before the defense arrived?

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From: <MHRJGScott at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Fact-checking on an AP wire story


> Being a double major in English and philosophy, as well as an MBA from
> Kellogg, I feel uniquely qualified to give you a totally  ambiguous 
> response.
> According to transformational grammar (according  to Chomsky) is that 
> syntax is
> entirely distinct from the question of whether a  sentence is meaningful, 
> or can
> be understood. It is possible for a sentence to  be both grammatical and
> meaningless, as in Chomsky's famous example "_colourless  green ideas 
> sleep
> furiously_ 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colourless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously) ".
> But such sentences manifest a linguistic  problem distinct from that posed 
> by
> meaningful but ungrammatical (non)-sentences  such as "man the bit 
> sandwich
> the", the meaning of which is fairly clear, but  which no _native speaker_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_speaker)  would  accept as being well 
> formed.
> In other words it is a badly formed sentence, but  you know what he meant.
>
>
>
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