I love criticisming and controvercing,linguoboy wrote:Got myself gardenpathed by this sentence: "Israeli President Reuven Rivlin describes Israel as a land that is used to debate, criticism, and controversy[.]"
Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
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From Politico: Space shades Malta's solar power push
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
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Tweet from the Independent: One of Denmark's first female Muslim MPs meets the person behind vitriolic hate mail for coffee
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In India, there's a series of books called Learn [language name] In a Month. On the back of each issue, it says: By Language Many As Nation One.
This is probably just a condensed version of what another more well-known series in India, Learn [language name] in 30 Days (yes this is another series altogether), uses as its motto (also printed on the back cover): "By languages we are many, but as a nation, we are one."
This is probably just a condensed version of what another more well-known series in India, Learn [language name] in 30 Days (yes this is another series altogether), uses as its motto (also printed on the back cover): "By languages we are many, but as a nation, we are one."
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A friend and I went to the barber shop last weekend. Today he texted me saying, "Its [sic] nice looking trendy and handsome" At first I thought he'd left out all punctuation and what he meant was my haircut was "nice-looking, trendy, and handsome." But now I wonder if he didn't mean exactly what he said, that looking trendy and handsome is nice.
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That's exactly what I took it to mean when I read what he wrote.linguoboy wrote:But now I wonder if he didn't mean exactly what he said, that looking trendy and handsome is nice.
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Reptile Cult Feud Over Raw Meat Ends in Death
No garden path here. I just love the headline, and the fact that it's not from a source like Weekly World News.
No garden path here. I just love the headline, and the fact that it's not from a source like Weekly World News.
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Hope Hicks To Be Next White House Communications Director
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There is a possibility of multiple hicks replacing one staff member of the White House??? Maybe Chump wasn't kidding about draining the swamp after all!!1 I'm not sure whether that's good or bad, though, despite the wording. I hope at least it doesn't mean someone named Hope had to go through some binge-drinking frat hazing ritual and then hiccup to get the job.linguoboy wrote:Hope Hicks To Be Next White House Communications Director
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Or this Hope person will be communications director of the new reality show "The Next White House"?
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Reality shows have communications directors?
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Clearly we're meant to hope that Bill Hicks is, after what I can only assuming is a long line of black holders of the office, the next director of house communications to be white.
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
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Instructions for preparing prior to heating: remove packaging and dip.
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
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Family of Connecticut teenager shot dead by police: we have been lied to (Grauniad)
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That one got me good.
I generally forget to say, so if it's relevant and I don't mention it--I'm from Southern Michigan and speak Inland North American English. Yes, I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; no, I don't have the cot-caught merger; and it is called pop.
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Reminds me of the old chestnut "remove lid and stand in boiling water for half an hour".Salmoneus wrote:Instructions for preparing prior to heating: remove packaging and dip.
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.
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The first woman filmmaker nobody's heard of. (Title of a short film about Alice Guy-Blaché.)
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Dallas Cowboys watch party turns deadly (New York Post)
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Hitting "turns" and realizing "watch" can't be the verb, I then thought of watches. A watch party, which would be a party that emphasizes wearing watches, or the like?linguoboy wrote:Dallas Cowboys watch party turns deadly (New York Post)
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Or maybe a party of people watching the Dallas Cowboys on TV?
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That's exactly what it was. (This is the shooting in Plano that you may already have heard about, Vijay.) I don't recall coming across "watch party" before; IMD that's a "watching party".Vijay wrote:Or maybe a party of people watching the Dallas Cowboys on TV?
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Weird. I've only ever heard "watch party", never "watching party". (Mostly weird because we're from the same city)linguoboy wrote:I don't recall coming across "watch party" before; IMD that's a "watching party".
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But different generations, IIRC.Axiem wrote:Weird. I've only ever heard "watch party", never "watching party". (Mostly weird because we're from the same city)linguoboy wrote:I don't recall coming across "watch party" before; IMD that's a "watching party".