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Kind of like garden path sentences. Famous garden path sentences like "the old man the boat" are crafted to parse to obvious nonsense on the first iteration, fo
by wongarsu 3y ago
Kind of like garden path sentences. Famous garden path sentences like "the old man the boat" are crafted to parse to obvious nonsense on the first iteration, forcing the reader to do backtracking. But when proofreading texts it's not uncommon to find unintentional garden path sentences that are easy to misunderstand, especially in English. Some politicians are great at doing that on purpose. But crafting sentences that only make sense on first parsing but are actually nonsense on second glance is kind of next level, some kind of inverse garden path sentence.