colourless green ideas

[Andrew Jameson]

Or, in English: "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously"
(Noam Chomsky). Others better versed in linguistics
than I will fill in the date and correct me if necessary.
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

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From: Alexey I. Fuchs <c0654038 at TECHST02.TECHNION.AC.IL>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: glokaja kuzdra
Date: 10 January 2000 11:58

Please answer publicly, on the list, for I ought to know that too. I've
been hearing this sentence since I was a child. I believe it goes like
that:
"Glokaya kuzdra shteko budlanula bokra i kurdyachit bokrenka."

I am not so sure. Please, if anybody knows, give also the source (who was
the famous academic) and references.


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                                                                A.F.

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ursula Doleschal wrote:

> Could anyone please help me with the following informations:
> 1) the complete citation of the Russian nonsense-word sentence "glokaja kuzdra ...budlanula bokrenka"
> 2) an equivalent of such a sentence in Polish AND Czech (cf. German: Piroten karulieren elatisch)
> 3) If there are morpheme and/or word-formational dictionaries for Polish and Czech (as Kuznetsova/Efremova Slovar morfem or
Tichonov Slovoobrazovatelnyj slovar).
>
> I s Novym Godom!
>
> Dr. Ursula Doleschal
> Inst. f. Slawische Sprachen, WU Wien
> Rossauer Laende 23, A-1090 Wien
> Tel.: ++43-1-31336-4115, Fax: 744
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