• Albbi@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Never heard of garden path sentences before. Very neat! I loved the examples on the Wikipedia page.

      Eg. The old man the boat.

      It’s so short and I love it as the first example.

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        7 months ago

        That’s what irks me about this lazy dropping of the ‘of’ after ‘couple’

        “I saw a couple birds”

        You saw them do what now?

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        7 months ago

        My first thought was ‘zombie work’ was a phrase for a job where you don’t have to think at all while doing it. Say a factory job like picking up rolls of tape and putting them in the tape dispenser.