In addition to being a brilliant comedian, Mr. Carlin was also a deeply enthusiastic student of the English language. In memoriam of his passing, I think I
might go down to the baseball diamond this afternoon and beat up Hitler's grandmother.
(Explanation: Carlin thought that you could create sentences in English that made complete syntactic and grammatical sense, but made no comprehensive sense to
be one of its best features. In a public television documentary on English, his example was, "This afternoon, I'm going down to the baseball diamond
to beat up Hitler's grandmother.")
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
might go down to the baseball diamond this afternoon and beat up Hitler's grandmother.
(Explanation: Carlin thought that you could create sentences in English that made complete syntactic and grammatical sense, but made no comprehensive sense to
be one of its best features. In a public television documentary on English, his example was, "This afternoon, I'm going down to the baseball diamond
to beat up Hitler's grandmother.")
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."