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sarahz.bsky.social • 53 days ago

"The woke left" is technically a garden path sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

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julietmylan.bsky.social•53 days ago

Who is The Woke and how can I meet her?

sarahz.bsky.social•53 days ago

I'm afraid to say she left

julietmylan.bsky.social•53 days ago

But I just got here!

jlwill.bsky.social•53 days ago

Trump delivers garden-path speeches. Or is that giving him too much credit?

sarahz.bsky.social•53 days ago

Like "the old man the boat" or "The horse raced past the barn fell"

victorknightx.bsky.social•53 days ago

Man door hand hook car gun?

gawkycosmicsloth.bsky.social•53 days ago

"The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families" completely fried my brain.

sparroque.bsky.social•53 days ago

My favorite: "time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana"

itmustbemitch.bsky.social•53 days ago

"the horse raced past the barn fell" is so weird to me as a canonical example, because in my idiolect "the horse raced past the barn" really can't be analyzed as a noun phrase.

Other people seem not to have this problem lol

vivmakesstuff.bsky.social•52 days ago

The woke truly have left

arooglygoon.bsky.social•50 days ago

conservatives say things like "if you don't like it, leave" and then complain that the woke left

brandishjaye.bsky.social•53 days ago

Where did the woke go?

mrliamhatman.bsky.social•53 days ago

The woke left? Finally I can get some sleep

But nah thanks for learning this linguistics nerd something new ❤️

ornitorrinco.bsky.social•53 days ago

Fun fact: that happens A LOT in Brazilian journalism. It's funny, but also not.

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