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Same here. I believe the effect is similar to that of a garden path sentence[1] except instead of discovering a grammatical inconsistency and having to backtra
by kjhughes 9y ago
Same here.
I believe the effect is similar to that of a garden path sentence[1] except instead of discovering a grammatical inconsistency and having to backtrack to re-parse, the grammatical context misleads the lexical level so much so that we "see" 'Paris' where 'Pairs' actually exists. I suspect that the 'P' being capitalized further supports the 'Paris' misinterpretation.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
- gpvos 9y agoAlso, the weird English custom to capitalize most words in titles, but not in normal sentences, adds to the confusion here.
- cormullion 9y agoUS-English, I think. British-English headlines are less caps-heavy.
- qb45 9y agoSo semantic analysis of born in provides hints to the lexer, turning Pairs into Paris? I can tell you it gets even more bizarre: I once misread "bluetooth is dead" as "IrDA is dead" and was like, "duh, no shit, Sherlock, how is this even a news?". So, apparently, everything gets lexed right initially, then it goes to semantic analysis which figures out that some comms standard is dead, obviously IrDA is a comms standard which is virtually dead nowadays, this tidbit is fed back into the parser, which stabilizes on its final output: IrDA is dead. Kill me.