This weeks readings

I don't know about you guys but I found this weeks readings alot easier to understand, and I'm not just saying this because Michael said "If you dont understand this stuff by now drop out". lol I found the word usage in these articles was alot more conventional, thus easier for us (or anyone for that matter) to understand. I felt I got alot more out of these articles in terms of course material and only had to read through them once to get the jist of what the author was saying. I especially enjoyed, well...........prefered is more the word, reading "Colorless green ideads sleep furiously" from Wikipedia. I found it interesting to see that in this article it was said that a sentence can be false yet not meaningless at the same time. I can see how they arrived at this conclusion with the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". Although the sentence is false and makes no sense whatsoever, there is still meaning within it. I think this comes from the idea that although the composition of the words in the sentence are totally bogus, the individual words still make sense in themselves. We all know that green, furiously and sleep are all real words in the english language, yet the way they are put together make no sense at all.