Linguistics is the scientific study of human language.
Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or
subfields: the study of language form, of language meaning, and
of language in context. - Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. -
Illustrating ambiguity. - Misattributed to Groucho Marx; first
recorded on Usenet group net.jokes in 1982: Bill Banze
(1982-09-07). "<bnews.mork-cb.130> Time flies...". net.jokes.
(Google Groups). Retrieved on 2009-08-31. See also Fred R.
Shapiro, (2006). The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 498, in which
the earliest appearance of the saying is attributed to the
net.jokes post. Shapiro gives the post's date as 9 July 1982,
transposing the day and month of the Usenet post. - Buffalo
buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo -
Illustration of homonyms and homophones. - William J. Rapaport,
1972, reported in William J. Rapaport, "A History of the
Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." (22 Septemb