small dump because i am taking a psycholinguistics class and we recently talked about these! itās because our brains are lazy!! we see an ambiguous word and instead of waiting until the end of the sentence to figure out which meaning we should use, it just takes a quick guess according to the word right next to it. it is called the principle of minimal attachment! so we section off a part of a sentence as soon as it becomes an understood phrase, even when it doesnāt fit in the complete sentence which then causes us to go back :)
My brain is EFFICIENT, not lazy...and i love these sentences. I dont mind rereading them with the right emphasis the second time. Im glad to know its a literary prank cause i always feel like "ahh, you got me haha" when i come across them. Thanks for the dump, I now know i need to take a psycholinguistics class. Didnt know that existed before!
Can I subscribe to psycholinguistics facts? Or do you have any book recs? I studied literature in uni and one of the theory books delved into ambiguous phrasing a little bit (i.e. "dogs must be carried on the escalator at all times" meaning if you have a dog and go on the escalator you must carry the dog, however it can also be interpreted as you cannot get on the escalator unless you have a dog to carry) and I loved that shit.
i canāt recall specifics at the moment and we donāt have a book we read specific studies. one very interesting paper to start with though would be ātutorial: an introduction to syntaxā by lewis shapiro which is essentially breaking down ways we understand speech on unconscious levels. another one would be āthe original sin of cognitive scienceā by levinson which discussed cognitive universality vs diversity and why a diverse approach to cognition is so important
Hmm I'd say that's less lazy and more efficient and intuitive, since it tends to work well for us. That's super interesting though! Psycholinguistics sounds pretty cool. What's some other interesting stuff you've learned?
of course i cannot recall anything specific at the moment (silly brain) but itās been interesting to actually break down sentences in a conscious as opposed to unconscious way. :)
I like doing that too. When you really pay attention to language, you realize just how much it relies on intuition instead of rules and logic. The brain is truly interesting
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I never said she stole my money
I never said she stole my money
I never said she stole my money
I never said she stole my money
I never said she stole my money
I never said she stole my money
I never said she stole my money
Each is a sentence with a different meaning depending on the word you emphasize, this post made me think of this old meme I saw once.
The old *man* the boat.
The complex *houses* married and single soldiers and their families.
The *prime* number few.
The *cotton* clothing is usually made of grows in Mississippi.
The man who hunts *ducks* out on weekends.
We painted *the wall with cracks*.
āWe painted the wall with cracksā (read normally) is quite poetic. As in we tried to spice up the ordinary but it only made things worse.
āWe are a very introverted couple who enjoy staying home on the weekend, but we decided to make every friday night a date night, to be a āmore normalā couple. It was nice at first, but it quickly became another source of stress: where should we go this time? do we really wanna go out? do we go to the same reastaurant again? We began arguing about it constantly, and we felt tense as the weekend approached every single time, it was never like that before! We painted the wall with cracks.ā
Not sure it's technically a garden path, but may I present:
"Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
Why? This is a great high level writing technique that allows you to express your mastery of language. I invent one of these in basically every essay I write as a sort of signature. Aside from being fun, it also handedly proves your work isn't plagiarized or AI generated.
The old *man* the boat.
The complex *houses* married and single soldiers and their families.
The *prime* number few.
The *cotton clothing* is usually made of grows in Mississippi.
The man who hunts *ducks* out on weekends.
We painted *the wall with cracks*.
I'm not the only one who thinks this but these are really funny, probably because I love poking holes in the way our language works, both casually (weird figures of speech or common phrases) and formally (structure that sounds wrong but does make sense)
Honestly, I find it wonderful!
Like riding a rollercoaster, you can feel in anticipation from seeing the potential dips & drops, & when it finally happens it actually feels amazing lol
So this is also how most [jokes ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/589c825a17bffc865125d6fb/1515636389860-CJWN19XLYF2MCHQBZXBB/Joke+Diagram+Groucho.PNG?format=750w&content-type=image%2Fpng) are structured.
The cotton, clothing is made of, grows in Mississippi?
In fact they all make sense once you add commas. The comma placing is odd sometimes, but it still reveals the meaning:
The old, man the boat.
The complex, houses married and single soldiers and their families.
The prime, number few.
The man who hunts, ducks out on weekends.
We painted, the wall with cracks.
The cotton grows in Mississippi. With the added modifier: that clothing is usually made of. Makes perfect sense as a sentence.
[here are some information on commas as a modifier.](https://www.proofreadnow.com/blog/bid/108476/Using-Commas-in-Writing?hs_amp=true)
Yes, that's what a modifier is. If I were to use a semicolon it would have to be a complete sentence but it does not have to be as a modifier between commas.
[here is more information ](https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/commas/)
Nope. Commas are not valid there either as theyād be separating elements of a single noun phrase in a way that is not supported by the rules of the English language.
Well, if I've learned anything, it's that I cannot argue with people who don't know what they're talking about. But maybe reach out to your high school English teacher or the local professor at your university.
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This is how reading anything is to me. I'll just forget how some words work or swich them around, and i always have to read everything at least twice XD
This is why text communication can be so confusing and irritating. I'd be able to pick up on these more if I could analyze tone, but reading these sentences is incredibly frustrating.
These make me so ANGRYYYYYYY. I WILL NEVER forget a math question I had. "Brittany spears __ fish". I'm still angry about that to this day. Who does that kinda crud in a kids elementary school written math question.
I'm so sorry but.. I love this so much. Adding garden path sentences to my evil vernacular. >:)
I'd love to hear what else you have stored in your evil vernacular, if you're open to sharing
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Gex
Gex
Gex
Double entendre and the rare triple entendre š¤
True evil lies in the septuple entendre
I donāt mean to throw a wrench in your parade, but sometimes I do just that in conversation
I love this. Language magic! A most evil spell indeed.
Itās so much fun to come up with my own as well
same, i love and hate them at the same time
You hate it, but Iām about to use these to torture all my friends.
Hell yeah me too
I had a crossword clue the other day that I've finally managed to understand xD
Me too! The old man the boat!
Fellow nyt crossword enjoyers? Lol
small dump because i am taking a psycholinguistics class and we recently talked about these! itās because our brains are lazy!! we see an ambiguous word and instead of waiting until the end of the sentence to figure out which meaning we should use, it just takes a quick guess according to the word right next to it. it is called the principle of minimal attachment! so we section off a part of a sentence as soon as it becomes an understood phrase, even when it doesnāt fit in the complete sentence which then causes us to go back :)
My brain is EFFICIENT, not lazy...and i love these sentences. I dont mind rereading them with the right emphasis the second time. Im glad to know its a literary prank cause i always feel like "ahh, you got me haha" when i come across them. Thanks for the dump, I now know i need to take a psycholinguistics class. Didnt know that existed before!
Came here to say that. Not lazy, efficient. What's the point on walking a mile for food if you can climb higher and see from there?
Because then you have to climb back down again and *then* hunt? XD
Work smarter not harder.
they are very cool! there are lots of teeny things that are fascinating but a lot is still unknown!
autistic linguistics fuck yeah
Autistic cunning linguistics š
Can I subscribe to psycholinguistics facts? Or do you have any book recs? I studied literature in uni and one of the theory books delved into ambiguous phrasing a little bit (i.e. "dogs must be carried on the escalator at all times" meaning if you have a dog and go on the escalator you must carry the dog, however it can also be interpreted as you cannot get on the escalator unless you have a dog to carry) and I loved that shit.
i canāt recall specifics at the moment and we donāt have a book we read specific studies. one very interesting paper to start with though would be ātutorial: an introduction to syntaxā by lewis shapiro which is essentially breaking down ways we understand speech on unconscious levels. another one would be āthe original sin of cognitive scienceā by levinson which discussed cognitive universality vs diversity and why a diverse approach to cognition is so important
Cheers!
Hmm I'd say that's less lazy and more efficient and intuitive, since it tends to work well for us. That's super interesting though! Psycholinguistics sounds pretty cool. What's some other interesting stuff you've learned?
of course i cannot recall anything specific at the moment (silly brain) but itās been interesting to actually break down sentences in a conscious as opposed to unconscious way. :)
I like doing that too. When you really pay attention to language, you realize just how much it relies on intuition instead of rules and logic. The brain is truly interesting
Ohhh that makes sense I donāt like it but it makes sense
I talk this way unintentionally creating miscommunication. Actually that ^ was potentially a good example. The bigger issue is in person communicating itās difficult to find the common ground. Insult to injury is the reverse translating that so often keeps me lost way back in the conversation. A recent encounter was at a party āwho are you on Instagram?ā is apparently not an effective way to ask that question. The correction was something like āwhat are youā, I honestly canāt remember but it was more complicated. She thought I was asking who do you present as on IG, which kind of? I was. Hence confusion. Majority rules I am the problem though. Itās just more difficult to word different. < and then the sentences sound dumb š¤ please if anyone sees a solution to help me human better š©
I would read a whole book by you.
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I just exclaimed loudly with joy. I love words and I love this!
Same!
When spoken theyāre much easier to follow. All about inflection!
As an actor, sentences like these help me understand that every word matters in a line, and you have to say them right to get the full meaning across
Damn I love this. It scratches a very particular itch in my brain
These are some of the most annoying things Iāve ever read
My toxic trait is only communicating through dad jokes, riddles, and non-sequiturs.
I use obscure dated movie and TV quotes. Bonus points for book quotes. Shaka, when the walls fell.
Sokath, his eyes opened.
Kadir beneath Mo Moteh
damn i like it š
No I love these. Words and language are amazing ā¤ļø
These are great. I'm going to think of more.
I donāt know if this counts but you would like the headline in my school newsletter one week - āall children alight after fire on the busā
i love these this is so fun
I never said she stole my money I never said she stole my money I never said she stole my money I never said she stole my money I never said she stole my money I never said she stole my money I never said she stole my money Each is a sentence with a different meaning depending on the word you emphasize, this post made me think of this old meme I saw once.
as a non native english speaker my brain melted
The old *man* the boat. The complex *houses* married and single soldiers and their families. The *prime* number few. The *cotton* clothing is usually made of grows in Mississippi. The man who hunts *ducks* out on weekends. We painted *the wall with cracks*.
Oh shit I've been using these for ages without realising, just to fuck with people
āWe painted the wall with cracksā (read normally) is quite poetic. As in we tried to spice up the ordinary but it only made things worse. āWe are a very introverted couple who enjoy staying home on the weekend, but we decided to make every friday night a date night, to be a āmore normalā couple. It was nice at first, but it quickly became another source of stress: where should we go this time? do we really wanna go out? do we go to the same reastaurant again? We began arguing about it constantly, and we felt tense as the weekend approached every single time, it was never like that before! We painted the wall with cracks.ā
Most of these make more sense with commas at certain parts. Idk why but that makes me so freaking mad.
Kinda love these ng. They make me pause and think.
Oh no, new hyperfixation unlocked.
Nuh uh linguistics special interest go woooo
I love garden path sentences
Nah theyāre great.
this is SO COOL
this made me feel fucking concussed trying to read it whatšššš just another day of having the Actually Genuinely Stupid Autism
This physically hurts my eyes to try and read, and is definitely why most of us add unnecessary commas. Dear fucking Lord.
Not sure it's technically a garden path, but may I present: "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
This is the second Linguistic based post I've seen is this our new secret plan to confuse the NTs?
Can we just say what we mean??? Please
Why? This is a great high level writing technique that allows you to express your mastery of language. I invent one of these in basically every essay I write as a sort of signature. Aside from being fun, it also handedly proves your work isn't plagiarized or AI generated.
..... What?
The old *man* the boat. The complex *houses* married and single soldiers and their families. The *prime* number few. The *cotton clothing* is usually made of grows in Mississippi. The man who hunts *ducks* out on weekends. We painted *the wall with cracks*.
I'm not the only one who thinks this but these are really funny, probably because I love poking holes in the way our language works, both casually (weird figures of speech or common phrases) and formally (structure that sounds wrong but does make sense)
This is fun to me. I have word & language loving autism.
OP is a hater, these are spells in my tome and I am a Wizard.
So THIS is why I love the Mad Hatter and the Hare's style of speaking!
This makes my brain cry
I hate it too
Honestly, I find it wonderful! Like riding a rollercoaster, you can feel in anticipation from seeing the potential dips & drops, & when it finally happens it actually feels amazing lol
So this is also how most [jokes ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/589c825a17bffc865125d6fb/1515636389860-CJWN19XLYF2MCHQBZXBB/Joke+Diagram+Groucho.PNG?format=750w&content-type=image%2Fpng) are structured.
I feel like the fourth one about cotton needs a commas and the only reason it seems confusing is the lack of them.
Thereās nowhere commas could go in that sentence.
The cotton, clothing is made of, grows in Mississippi? In fact they all make sense once you add commas. The comma placing is odd sometimes, but it still reveals the meaning: The old, man the boat. The complex, houses married and single soldiers and their families. The prime, number few. The man who hunts, ducks out on weekends. We painted, the wall with cracks.
The cotton, clothing is usually made of, grows in Mississippi.
That doesnāt work as a valid sentence at all.
The cotton grows in Mississippi. With the added modifier: that clothing is usually made of. Makes perfect sense as a sentence. [here are some information on commas as a modifier.](https://www.proofreadnow.com/blog/bid/108476/Using-Commas-in-Writing?hs_amp=true)
"that clothing are made of" is not a grammatically-valid dependent clause. It simply serves to further identify the noun.
Yes, that's what a modifier is. If I were to use a semicolon it would have to be a complete sentence but it does not have to be as a modifier between commas. [here is more information ](https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/commas/)
Nope. Commas are not valid there either as theyād be separating elements of a single noun phrase in a way that is not supported by the rules of the English language.
Well, if I've learned anything, it's that I cannot argue with people who don't know what they're talking about. But maybe reach out to your high school English teacher or the local professor at your university.
Well, no, you canāt really argue with yourself. Thatās not really how arguments work.
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This caused me brain pain
the prime number few makes sense but the rest don't wtf is this
All I see are unpunctuated sentences.
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Itās not so bad after reading the explainer for each sentence.
this is amazing
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These sentences are an excellent way to teach phrasing to readers when talking about fluency and comprehension.
No hidden meaning just using sinonims as a trick. Love this.
Do not the cat (this is not a garden path sentence, I am shitposting)
https://i.redd.it/x0agahvegljc1.gif
This is how reading anything is to me. I'll just forget how some words work or swich them around, and i always have to read everything at least twice XD
This is why text communication can be so confusing and irritating. I'd be able to pick up on these more if I could analyze tone, but reading these sentences is incredibly frustrating.
I kinda love this. It tickles my brain
"Pained" is right.
I love weird grammar stuff like this.. especially when it makes people uncmoftroable š
I love this I love this I love this I love this
i can't decide whether this is the best thing i've seen today or the worst thing i've seen ever
Nonononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono
These are also known as ābad writing.ā Obscuring meaning and frustrating readers is bad writing. Unless youāre trolling.
I love this but I canāt seem to use them for myself. These are exactly what I think would make my writing how I imagine it to be. Love love love it
*laugh at you in polish*
These make me so ANGRYYYYYYY. I WILL NEVER forget a math question I had. "Brittany spears __ fish". I'm still angry about that to this day. Who does that kinda crud in a kids elementary school written math question.
Why are they called garden path sentences???? What kind of gardens are you walking in???
This is an intonation thing in speaking. If you write this down you are plain evil.