[jmhain]

> Who the hell would write prose by making all the verbs blue, the nouns red, and the adverbs green (or something to that effect).

Slightly off topic, but I think doing this could actually be useful for learning languages, especially highly inflected ones (if you extend the color coding to account for gender, case, etc.).

[raattgift]

The farm was used to produce produce.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

A bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.

That that that that boy said is not that that that that boy said.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[Blaque]

That's what I remember doing in primary school when we were learning french grammar, and later with ESL. Is this not a common teaching tool in other languages/school systems ?