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Reminds me of > Knowledge is Power - France is bacon.
by _fw 3y ago
Reminds me of
> Knowledge is Power - France is bacon.
- chongli 3y agoThese are examples of dangling modifiers [1]. They’re related to garden-path sentences [2] because they trick you into parsing one way and then get you to backtrack. One of my favourite grammatical constructions! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- kazinator 3y agoModifiers are something dangled before the faces of grammarians as an incentive.