One classic example from linguistics is the two (true) sentences "Politicians lie." "Cast iron sinks." Combine them syntactically and you get "Politicians li

One classic example from linguistics is the two (true) sentences "Politicians lie." "Cast iron sinks." Combine them syntactically and you get "Politicians lie in cast iron sinks", perhaps not completely false but certainly less useful than the component parts. EDIT: It seems this is actually from Douglas Hofstadter