rod mclaughlin

More tabloid illiteracy (08 may 11)

"The mother of missing Madeleine McCann has revealed how she angrily slept in another bedroom the night before her daughter went missing":

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384828/Kate-McCann-reveals-falling-husband-meant-slept-night-Maddie-disappeared.html

The sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is used in linguistics to show how words can be syntactically coherent but semantically meaningless - it is grammatically correct but nonsensical. If you can't sleep furiously, how can you sleep angrily?

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