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This title had the garden path sentence effect on me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
by terabytest 1y ago
This title had the garden path sentence effect on me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- DecentShoes 1y agoCan you provide the bracketing??
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoA whole lot of "climbing catfish" were filmed in the act of scaling a waterfall.
- pvaldes 1y ago1) There are species of small "catfishes" (on Asia or Australia if I remember correctly) known to climb waterfalls in rainforests. We are talking about > 100m long fully vertical waterfalls. 2) In fact, they aren't catfishes. Belong to a big family of mainly marine fishes called gobies. Totally different orders. Should be named climbing gobies. 3) They do it for the same reason as Salmons do: to reproduce in freshwater. 4) But unlike salmons they don't swim or jump. They climb the slippery rock wall like a freestyle climber, using the suction cups in their belly that gobies have (pelvic fins transformed), and their other fins and tail to propel 5) Somebody filmed those fishes climbing.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoThe article says "Rochedo, Brazil" so South American rainforests, in this case. These species are "restricted to fresh water in South America" source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopimelodidae#Distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopimelodidae#Distribution
- pvaldes 1y agoHum, yep. You are right, Pseudopimelodidae are catfishes. I was thinking in the Hawaiian climbing goby.
- pvaldes 1y agoEvolutive convergence with gobies is interesting Also interesting is the presence of Ancistrus and Hypostomus in the mix of climbing fishes. Many people keeping aquariums breed this fishes at home. The first can lay eggs and care for the fry, the second is very difficult to breed.
- popalchemist 1y agoThe catfish were the ones filming.
- ajuc 1y agoHuh, interesting. Doesn't happen much in fusional languages.
- y-curious 1y agoWhat a fascinating read. From the article, "the horse raced past the barn fell" is messing me up.
- josefresco 1y agoSame here, I'll let you know when my brain stops hurting.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoIt's parallel to "the dress given to the girl ripped". There is an ambiguity allowing for a different parse, interpreting "the barn fell" as a fell associated with the barn: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fell#Etymology_3 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fell#Etymology_3 But that one isn't intended.
- y-curious 1y agoI found a new one: "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like bananas"
- thaumasiotes 1y agoThat is several decades old.
- y-curious 1y agoAkshually it was new to me :)
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- sebastiennight 1y agoI would love it if there was a browser extension specifically designed to maximize garden-path value of any headline. For this one I'd suggest: Scoop: catfish waterfall scaling climb film