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I was also confused for a moment. The title is an example of a garden path sentence[0]. You get several word into the sentence parsing it one way before you get
by poizan42 8y ago
I was also confused for a moment. The title is an example of a garden path sentence[0]. You get several word into the sentence parsing it one way before you get to a word that doesn't match your initial parsing, so you have to go back to the beginning again and reparse it.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence