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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: anomalous sentences
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 18:30:06 EST
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With reference to understanding malformed (anomalous) linguistic fragments,
I had a linguistics Prof who defined "anomalous sentence" by saying "An
anomalous sentence is a sentence that when you hear it you know what it
means but you think maybe there's something wrong with it."
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				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"The heart has its reasons that the mind does not know." -- Blaise Pascal