The Slush of Meaning: A Game of Skill, Chance, and Disappointment
with the State of Language Today
The rules:
You will be faced 5 times with a 3 quatrain poem based on Noam Chomsky's
famous example of a sentence that is grammatically correct but logically
impossible -- i.e. nonsensical or "meaningless."
Try to determine which phrase has the most Google hits. I.e., which phrase,
when typed into the Google search engine with scare-quotes around it, would
get the most hits.
If you guess the correct phrase, a browser window will open up that will show
you the Google page with those hits. If you are incorrect, a window will open
happily informing you of this matter.
Try for a perfect score -- that would be 5, as there are only 5 levels. After you
are done, close the other windows and try again.
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