Sometimes I wonder if linguists are just paid to come up with gibberish:
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The most famous Jabberwocky example comes from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky poem itself, which begins ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe and was designed to be nonsense. Yet clearly it is syntactically well-formed (did is capitalized in the original because of the line breaks).
For language users are sufficiently hungry to view language as an object with meaning that listeners make guesses about the meanings of these novel words, and come up with some (at least vague and general) meaning for the whole sentence. They do have some idea of what this sentence is about. And, strikingly, a speaker of English would certainly say that the above sentence is not synonymous with ’Twas not brillig, and the slithy toves did not gyre nor gimble in the wabe. But this judgment would be a complete category error if the sentence were literally meaningless. (Incidentally, one can construct the same argument for the colorless green ideas case.)”