The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steve Molaro, who is also one of the head writers. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007. Set in Pasadena, California, the show is centered on five characters: two roommate Caltech geniuses, experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter and theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper; their neighbor across the hall Penny, an attractive blonde waitress and aspiring actress; and Leonard's and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward co-workers and ...

«Гло́кая ку́здра ште́ко будлану́ла бо́кра и курдя́чит бокрёнка» — искусственная фраза на основе русского языка, в которой все корневые морфемы заменены на бессмысленные сочетания звуков. Несмотря на это, общий смысл фразы понятен: некоторое, определенным образом характеризуемое, существо женского пола что-то сделало определённым образом с другим существом мужского пола, а затем начала (и продолжает до настоящего момента) делать что-то другое с его детёнышем (или более мелким представителем того же вида). Фраза создана для иллюстрации того, что многие семантические признаки слова можно поня...

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct (logical form) but semantically nonsensical. The sentence has no understandable meaning, and therefore demonstrates the distinction between Syntax and Semantics. As an example of a category mistake, it was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of grammar, and the need for more structured models. Details The full passage says: While the meaninglessness of the sentence is often considered fu...

Oy vey (), or just oy, is an exclamation of dismay or exasperation meaning "oh woe." Its sound is very similar to Ach weh, and Au weh (with which it is a cognate), a common expression used in Bavaria and Austria in similar situations, combining the German exclamation Au! meaning "Ouch/Oh" and the German word Weh meaning pain, Oh ve, an older Danish epxression that derives from Low German or Oy Wah, an expression used with a similar meaning in the Montbéliard region in France. It is however also theorized that the first part of it (oy) is originally from Biblical Hebrew, with cognates in o...