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Sure, though a substantive adjective followed by a noun-verb homonym will almost always cause this phenomenon (to varying degrees): The crooked defect home. T
by ghayes 11y ago
Sure, though a substantive adjective followed by a noun-verb homonym will almost always cause this phenomenon (to varying degrees):
The crooked defect home.
The hot lead the cold.
The quick pace themselves.
The wet tear off their wet clothes.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoNice examples. "Old man" is a much more common adjective/noun construct than "wet tear", "crooked defect", and maybe even "quick pace", though, so I think these are slightly easier to parse. But "hot lead" is excellent :-)
- JadeNB 11y agoI don't know whether "the hot lead the cold" and "the wet tear off their clothes" are made easier, or harder, to parse by the fact that when one (or at least I) reads them, one assigns a pronunciation to the 3rd word en passant. (I picked correctly, as it turned out, so don't know how hard it is to overcome the effect of a wrong choice.)