Sketch of a General Cat
Jerry: You Photoshopped your photo into a sketch?
Tom: What do you think?
Jerry: You’ve gone from being You The Cat to being merely a Generic Cat.
Tom: I needed a new avatar. I stuck with being a cat because, in the end, on FaceBook, everyone knows you are a cat.
Jerry: You got that from somewhere.
Tom: Maybe. Who cares? Everything these days is a derivative. A mixture. A mashup. OK, so the structure came from somewhere but the words are mine.
Tom: What do you think?
Jerry: You’ve gone from being You The Cat to being merely a Generic Cat.
Tom: I needed a new avatar. I stuck with being a cat because, in the end, on FaceBook, everyone knows you are a cat.
Jerry: You got that from somewhere.
Tom: Maybe. Who cares? Everything these days is a derivative. A mixture. A mashup. OK, so the structure came from somewhere but the words are mine.
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The deep structure generates a variety of sentences:
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The deep structure generates a variety of sentences:
Location + Entity + Verb + Personal
reference + Copula + Entity
On the internet + nobody + knows + you + are + a dog
On FaceBook + everyone + knows + you + are + a cat
Look forward to more quotations like this sheep in wolf’s clothing!
Chomsky might agree the surface structure is creative. A little.
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