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<p>Xamnidar: added explanation: context-free grammar</p> <hr /> <div>{{ComicHeader|1090|August 2, 2012}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Formal_languages.png|[audience looks around] &amp;#39;What just happened?&amp;#39; &amp;#39;There must be some context we&amp;#39;re missing.&amp;#39;]]<br /> <br /> == Image Text ==<br /> [audience looks around] &amp;#39;What just happened?&amp;#39; &amp;#39;There must be some context we&amp;#39;re missing.&amp;#39;<br /> <br /> == Description ==<br /> [[Megan]] is standing at the podium of the 10th Annual Symposium on Formal Languages (as per the banner behind her). [[Cueball]] crashes in through a glass pane and shouts &quot;GRAMMAR!&quot; and dashes off. Megan remains at the podium looking perplexed.<br /> <br /> This is a reference to the phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar context-free grammar], which is a technical term used in formal language theory.</div>

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