• Albbi
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    5 months ago

    Never heard of garden path sentences before. Very neat! I loved the examples on the Wikipedia page.

    Eg. The old man the boat.

    It’s so short and I love it as the first example.

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      That’s what irks me about this lazy dropping of the ‘of’ after ‘couple’

      “I saw a couple birds”

      You saw them do what now?