March 9th, 2010
Zoom A garden path sentence is a sentence  for which the responder’s most intuitive interpretation is an incorrect one, ultimately luring them into an improper parse. (h/t @tjmahr)

A garden path sentence is a sentence  for which the responder’s most intuitive interpretation is an incorrect one, ultimately luring them into an improper parse. (h/t @tjmahr)

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  4. thebardsociety reblogged this from tristn and added:
    Alright, granted, but then they’re only ambiguous because they’re orthographically incorrect - they may be appropriate...
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  6. tristn reblogged this from thebardsociety and added:
    Orthography is not grammar. All of these sentences are perfectly grammatical and can be easily understood when said...
  7. thebardsociety reblogged this from tristn and added:
    I’m pretty sure that many of these are not grammatically correct: First one is okay; Second one ought to be ‘The man,...
  8. tristn reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    A garden path sentence is a sentence for which the responder’s most intuitive interpretation is an incorrect one,...
  9. ih8review reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    Sentence: The fuckheads telling some they are awesomely fantastic?” Likely Parse: The fuckheads, they tell their friends...
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