David's World

May 3, 2005

We misunderstood victoriously, obnoxiously, justly.

Who says we need intelligent Natural Language Generation?
I've just received this spam e-mail, that probably only has one purpose: to either come up with statistics or do something virus-like with Windows machines.
Either way, it's certainly nothing short of Noam Chomsky's famous frequency-zero sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously", and its text is definitely a challenge for probabilistic spam-filters:

its balance upheld parallel. why ink sang them warmly? monthly operation rode that company beside paint. we bethought that necessary draw for soap. quickly. that fertile paint under cat, that recast certain, thin crowd. Russell rebound its wise cow. (...) quiet silver impulse dug, we misunderstood victoriously, obnoxiously, justly. your separate writing sawed towards his pot; green, cheap column. we unsaid some waiting distribution following that white air, who overspent nervously. it retold me public. he bore black blood, that betook greedily...