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« Who cares? | Main | The latest Ideas » Friday, April 27, 2007Fun with linguisticsRemembering diagramming sentences in school? Yeah, me neither. But some people do. They remember it pretty well. A poster on Metafilter asked for some help diagramming a 94-word sentence that "won the bad writing contest in 1998." (He or she doesn't say anything more about this contest. Do tell.) Three hours later, presto. The diagrammer speaks: Well, I took a go at it.. Came up with a generic syntactic tree based on a few different versions of generative grammar all mashed up in my head.. Posted by Evan Hughes at 07:50 PM
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