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This is a classic garden-path sentence [1] if I ever saw one. It happens sometimes in "headlinese" when editors or authors try to squeeze as many characters out
by mhink 6y ago
This is a classic garden-path sentence [1] if I ever saw one. It happens sometimes in "headlinese" when editors or authors try to squeeze as many characters out of a headline as possible.
"[A] note[,] in which [The] Hitchhiker's [Guide To The Galaxy] writer reminds himself he will [']finally get pleasure from process['][,] is] to be part of [a] book based on his archive."
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- teh_klev 6y agoI think the crime here is that this tortured sentence isn't even the headline but the byline, and The Grauniad seems to permit up to three lines of text, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/23/thomas-bernhard-was-a-demon-half-brother-reveals-in-bestseller https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/23/thomas-bernhar... https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/kate-briggs-renee-gladman-windham-campbell-prizes https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/kate-briggs-re...
- anaphor 6y agoThe headline of this article is a garden path for me too, because at first I thought they discovered a book he wrote on torture or something.