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> I just want to say the style of the article and it's direct, terse language really captures the gravity of the situation and seriousness of the subject. Quic
by mastre_ 10y ago
> I just want to say the style of the article and it's direct, terse language really captures the gravity of the situation and seriousness of the subject.
Quick comment about how your it's instead of its caused an English parsing error in my brain:
I read until the comma and because I saw it's, I assumed I missed a word in the first part of the sentence - I though it may have been something like "I just want to say I evaluated the style of the article and it's direct, it's frank, it's spot on!", but re-reading it didn't reveal anything I missed. I then considered some less common writing styles/expressions. None of that worked out, so I read past the comma and figured out what happened. All this happened in the span of a second or so. Not sure what it was about this particular sentence that caused me to stop at the comma, I don't think it happens often.
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421811 and marked it off-topic.
- c22 10y agoI had the same problem when I read "I though..."
- grkvlt 10y agoFYI, they are called 'garden path sentences' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence