[Corpora-List] What is the meaning of life?

Andras Kornai andras at kornai.com
Sat Jan 2 11:26:00 UTC 2010


The story goes that Barbara Partee was asked by one of her students
what the meaning of life was and this was her response... 

Andras Kornai

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:46:18AM +0000, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> 
>    Answer: life prime
> 
>    Does anyone have a source for my favourite formal linguistics joke?
>    (I heard it attributed to Montague, of Montague grammar, but I have no
>    idea if that's right)
> 
>    happy new year
> 
>    adam
>    --
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>    Adam Kilgarriff
>    [1]http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk
>    Lexical Computing Ltd
>    [2]http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
>    Lexicography MasterClass Ltd      [3]http://www.lexmasterclass.com
>    Universities of Leeds and Sussex       [4]adam at lexmasterclass.com
>    ================================================
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/
>    2. http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/
>    3. http://www.lexmasterclass.com/
>    4. mailto:adam at lexmasterclass.com

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