Chomsky, the geatest linguist of all time and the most cited scholar on earth, has this famous quotation:

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

One day I had a slip of tongue that made Tanya laugh, “Dad, it does not make sense at all”.  

"Talking about making sense", I said, " there are times when perfectly grammatical sentences do not make sense, for example, Chomsky's green idea."  I thought it was good time to introduce this.

Not surprisingly, Tanya got intrigued by Chomsky, “haha, this is the most stupid sentence I have ever heard. How can ideas sleep? Ok, even if it can sleep, how can it sleep furiously? Ideas have color? Green? Come on.”  She had lots of fun laughing at it, until suddenly,

“Dad, it actually makes sense to me.”

How?

“well”, Tanya seemed to be making something up as she spoke，”colorful green really means fancy green, shining green, …”

No, not colorful green, it is colorless green.

“Oh, yeh, colorless green is even better, it means transparent green, right? ideas sleep in a beauty sleep dream, too.”

beauty sleep? it sleeps FURIOUSLY.

“right, that must be a nightmare!”

Wow you are really good at inpterpreting nonsenses.

“hehe”, with a smile, making a face, she said, ”I am a nonsense person after all.”

I remember myself writing something to make sense of nonsense when I was a Ph.D. student in (computational) linguistics.  I posted it to Linguist List which then was published in an Esperanto newspaper by a local Esperantists' club:

Interpreting "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"

Does it make sense?

In a certain domain, the Chomsky's famous sentence is well imaginable.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Imagine the following context:

As we know, Esperantists wear a badge of "a green star", a symbol for Esperanto
and its ideals. From there, "green ideas" would be easily conprehensible to
their minds.

Suppose now comes an opponent to Esperanto, he may say,

"Your green ideas are really colorless, not only colorless, those ideas are no
longer popular! Colorless green ideas sleep now!"

Well, what is a possible reaction from some Esperantists?

"Yes, our ideas sleep now. But remember,
colorless green ideas sleep furiously! "

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