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I was sure this was going to be an article about a mouse making a short film about a guy cleaning his shed.
by neom 3y ago
I was sure this was going to be an article about a mouse making a short film about a guy cleaning his shed.
- hn_acker 3y agoNewspaper headline rules occasionally lead to syntatically ambiguous sentences [1], sometimes funny ones. In this case, the headline is a garden-path sentence [2]. Cutting out "to be" words (Mouse was filmed -> Mouse filmed) in headlines is called zero copula [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headlin... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula#In_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula#In_English
- luke-stanley 3y agoI'm sorry, this time it was the other way around. If you want to talk about this, please reach out. We're never far. Squeak.