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Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

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Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical. The sentence was originally used in his 1955 thesis The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory and in his 1956 paper "Three Models for the Description of Language".[1]: 116  There is no obvious understandable meaning that can be derived from it, which demonstrates the distinction between syntax and semantics, and the idea that a syntactically well-formed sentence is not guaranteed to be semantically well-formed as well. As an example of a category mistake, it was used to show the inadequacy of certain probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models.


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feel free to share it! (my understanding of the meme is that its not entirely an organically made "gibberish sentence" but was partly made deliberately? hence its not a "pure" gibberish sentence like "has anyone ever been so far" or "imagine how is touch the sky")