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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Sentence: The fuckheads telling some they are awesomely fantastic?” Likely Parse: The fuckheads, they tell their friends...
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natface said:
Most of this could be solved with some proper punctuation or prepositions. The author wrote that the novel was likely to be a best-seller. Don’t blame the audience, blame the writer.
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