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[audience looks around] 'What just happened?' 'There must be some context we're missing.'
 
  
 
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Revision as of 14:24, 6 August 2012

Formal Languages
formal languages.png
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Description

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 "GRAMMAR!" and dashes off. Megan remains at the podium looking perplexed.

This is a reference to the phrase context-free grammar, which is a technical term used in formal language theory. The play on words is that Cueball does not provide any context for his statement.