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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

8073	How do we parse 'time flies like an arrow' and 'fruit flies like an apple'? [Devlin]
	Full Idea: How do people identify subject and verb in the sentences "time flies like an arrow" and "fruit flies like an apple"?
	From: Keith Devlin (Goodbye Descartes [1997], Ch. 1)
	A reaction: A nice illustration of the fact that even if we have an innate syntax mechanism, it won't work without some semantics, and some experience of the environmental context of utterances.