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fwiw the title is not a garden path sentence, as there’s no misleading initial parse.
by tired-turtle 3y ago
fwiw the title is not a garden path sentence, as there’s no misleading initial parse.
- geoelectric 3y ago“Acquired” is only really used for the purchase of businesses, at least in headlines, and especially in tech news. The awkward translation is indeed a garden path sentence when delivered to this crowd. About the only real counterargument is that you could also interpret the translation as trading the business for 110,000 students and teachers. That would not be garden path as it would be (accidentally) misleading wording in its entirety!
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoI think garden pathiness requires not merely that you got the wrong noun (the company itself, not their product), but that you got an entirely different parse tree.