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

[Yorick Wilks]

Adam
Of course the joke should be stored in the same box as (I think) Karen Sparck Jones' great observation that, in Montague Grammar the 
complicated concepts (e.g. "life") have no content or structure whereas the simple or dispensible (in slavic) ones (like "the") have enormous structures----"the" is about 50 characters long if memory serves.
YW

On 2 Jan 2010, at 05:46, 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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