I think you kind of misread the tone of Pole's post there.mèþru wrote:Not necessarily true. A lot of people without mental problems buy guns without any reason.Pole, the wrote:mentally stable aren't going to buy guns anyway
Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
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Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
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I somehow suspect that most native speakers don't understand that either...Ars Lande wrote:English might be evolving a little too fast for us non-native speakers to catch up.
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
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Yeah, I guess I did.
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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"Come to Mar-a-Lago, where you can watch US foreign policy being made and meet the man who carries the nuclear football for the low, low price of $200,000 a year"
from Vox
from Vox
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Is it just me, or have these recent headlines been neither confusing nor garden path-y?
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How about this gem of syntactic ambiguity (thanks, Politico):
Cabinet picks clash with White House over hiring
Cabinet picks clash with White House over hiring
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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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That's a fun one!
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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I understand others would have problems with the unfamiliar syntax, but despite the unfamiliarity of the syntax, the main difficulty of the statement for me is that I don't know who 'Palestine Queen' or 'Gigi' are. Apparently, they refer to one and the same person, Gigi Hadid.
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Chinese official denied visa to attend U.S. planetary science conference
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If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
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What's the problem with that one?
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I read it as "the Chinese officials who were denied a visa are about to attend a conference".
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Or, a Chinese official did the denying, so that someone else couldn't attend. Or, the Chinese offical denied a bunch of poor visa to attend a conference!
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Oh, that's amusing! I read it as (presumably the intended) "A Chinese official who was going to attend the conference was denied a visa"
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Or a denied visa going to attend something, as I'd most mindlessly parse it.Or, a Chinese official did the denying, so that someone else couldn't attend. Or, the Chinese offical denied a bunch of poor visa to attend a conference!
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The BBC continue to exaggerate the size and antiquity of scientists:
They stalked the earth around a hundred million years ago and scientists are constantly looking for new dinosaur fossils.
They stalked the earth around a hundred million years ago and scientists are constantly looking for new dinosaur fossils.
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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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Lol.
I first read the following:
Stephen Hawking, Given Two Years to Live in 1963, Is Going To Space Over 50 Years Later
as being about time travel. It wasn't until I actually read the article that I realised it wasn't Hawking travelling back to the year 1963.
I first read the following:
Stephen Hawking, Given Two Years to Live in 1963, Is Going To Space Over 50 Years Later
as being about time travel. It wasn't until I actually read the article that I realised it wasn't Hawking travelling back to the year 1963.
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From a novel by William Trevor:
"He strolled on the promenade among couples exercising their dogs, and nuns, and priests, and Christian Brothers."
I know that he's using all those commas specifically to prevent a reading that makes the clergy objects of the gerundive, but on me it perversely has the opposite effect. But maybe it's just that I love the image of Irish people keeping Christian Brothers as pets.
"He strolled on the promenade among couples exercising their dogs, and nuns, and priests, and Christian Brothers."
I know that he's using all those commas specifically to prevent a reading that makes the clergy objects of the gerundive, but on me it perversely has the opposite effect. But maybe it's just that I love the image of Irish people keeping Christian Brothers as pets.
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As an Irish Catholic, you have to exercise your clergy daily.
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Indeed, reports are always telling us how greatly the clergy are exercised by the modern Irish population...hwhatting wrote:As an Irish Catholic, you have to exercise your clergy daily.
(if you'll excuse the pun)
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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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Caption on Politico:
President Donald Trump speaks as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie looks on during a meeting about opioid and drug abuse in the Cabinet Room at the White House on March 29
President Donald Trump speaks as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie looks on during a meeting about opioid and drug abuse in the Cabinet Room at the White House on March 29
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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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This one took me a few moments:
2 new employees filling out paperwork among dead in St. Louis boiler explosion
2 new employees filling out paperwork among dead in St. Louis boiler explosion
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That article gives whiplash: one moment I'm laughing at the title; the next I'm very sad because of the deaths.
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The first source where I saw that story bizarrely located it in "Eastern Missouri". I expected it was going to be in some podunk like Elsberry or Park Hills or Perryville, not in the middle of St Louis City.
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Even for someone like me, who follows Major League Baseball, this was somewhat puzzling. If you don't, it must be completely opaque:
Braves foam tomahawks spill onto I-75 South in Cobb
Braves foam tomahawks spill onto I-75 South in Cobb