2793: Garden Path Sentence - Revision history

Mushrooms: Randall always writes in all caps- why would we capitalise the transcript now? also, most screenreaders parse all caps as a series of acronyms, making it difficult to understand

2025-10-03T12:20:15Z

Randall always writes in all caps- why would we capitalise the transcript now? also, most screenreaders parse all caps as a series of acronyms, making it difficult to understand

WriterArtistCoder: Clearer phrasing of first paragraph

2025-01-05T00:47:25Z

Clearer phrasing of first paragraph

141.101.105.131 at 07:17, 29 July 2024

2024-07-29T07:17:29Z

ConscriptGlossary at 10:03, 5 July 2024

2024-07-05T10:03:35Z

ConscriptGlossary: From a test paper seen by one of the Neography Wiki editors

2024-07-05T10:01:23Z

From a test paper seen by one of the Neography Wiki editors

Asdf: Matching imagesize

2024-05-03T09:44:50Z

Matching imagesize

162.158.90.218: /* Transcript */ huh, none

2023-10-07T07:14:58Z

‎Transcript: huh, none

Xurkitree10: /* Explanation */

2023-07-29T06:36:28Z

‎Explanation

162.158.38.212: /* Explanation */

2023-07-27T17:20:41Z

‎Explanation

172.70.126.100: Undo revision 318363 by 172.69.214.158 (talk)

2023-07-24T02:35:40Z

Undo revision 318363 by 172.69.214.158 (talk)

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 ==Transcript==
 :[A newspaper titled ''News'' with two pictures on the front page: one showing a judge with an airplane in the background, and the other displaying a map depicting the airplane's route. Above the pictures there is the following headline, displayed in all capital letters:]
-:AFTER BIRD STRIKES JUDGE WHO ORDERED OLIVE GARDEN PATH SENTENCE IN CASE OF GREEN WALKWAYS VACATED OVERTURNED BUT RIGHTS AND LANDS SAFELY
+:After bird strikes judge who ordered olive garden path sentence in case of green walkways vacated overturned but rights and lands safely
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 ==Explanation==
-A {{w|garden-path sentence}} is one in which the first or most obvious attempt at parsing the beginning of a sentence leads to the wrong meaning, causing confusion when the sentence is completed. A classic example of a garden path sentence is "The old man the boat.", leading to an initial incorrect parsing of "the old man" as a noun phrase, and therefore to assuming there is no verb before the noun "the boat". The actual correct way to parse this sentence is to treat "the old" as a noun and "man" as a verb, meaning "to crew" or "to serve in/on", so the sentence means "The old people operate the boat."
+In a {{w|garden-path sentence}}, the initial attempt to parse its beginning leads to the wrong meaning, causing confusion when the sentence is completed. A classic example of a garden path sentence is "The old man the boat." This seems like nonsense when "the old man" is parsed as a noun phrase, but when "the old" is parsed as a noun, and "man" as a verb meaning "to operate", the sentence means "The old people operate the boat."
 Possible grammatically correct interpretations of the sentences in this comic are:

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 ==Explanation==
 A {{w|garden-path sentence}} is one in which the first or most obvious attempt at parsing the beginning of a sentence leads to the wrong meaning, causing confusion when the sentence is completed. A classic example of a garden path sentence is "The old man the boat.", leading to an initial incorrect parsing of "the old man" as a noun phrase, and therefore to assuming there is no verb before the noun "the boat". The actual correct way to parse this sentence is to treat "the old" as a noun and "man" as a verb, meaning "to crew" or "to serve in/on", so the sentence means "The old people operate the boat."

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 }}
 ==Explanation==
 A {{w|garden-path sentence}} is one in which the first or most obvious attempt at parsing the beginning of a sentence leads to the wrong meaning, causing confusion when the sentence is completed. A classic example of a garden path sentence is "The old man the boat.", leading to an initial incorrect parsing of "the old man" as a noun phrase, and therefore to assuming there is no verb before the noun "the boat". The actual correct way to parse this sentence is to treat "the old" as a noun and "man" as a verb, meaning "to crew" or "to serve in/on", so the sentence means "The old people operate the boat."

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 }}
 ==Explanation==
-A {{w|garden-path sentence}} is one in which the first or most obvious attempt at parsing the beginning of a sentence leads to the wrong meaning, causing confusion when the sentence is completed. A classic example of a garden path sentence is "The old man the boat.", leading to an initial incorrect parsing of "the old man" as a noun phrase, and therefore to assuming there is no verb before the noun "the boat". The actual correct way to parse this sentence is to treat "the old" as a noun and "man" as a verb, meaning "to crew", so the sentence means "The old people operate the boat."
+A {{w|garden-path sentence}} is one in which the first or most obvious attempt at parsing the beginning of a sentence leads to the wrong meaning, causing confusion when the sentence is completed. A classic example of a garden path sentence is "The old man the boat.", leading to an initial incorrect parsing of "the old man" as a noun phrase, and therefore to assuming there is no verb before the noun "the boat". The actual correct way to parse this sentence is to treat "the old" as a noun and "man" as a verb, meaning "to crew" or "to serve in/on", so the sentence means "The old people operate the boat."
 Possible grammatically correct interpretations of the sentences in this comic are:

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 | title     = Garden Path Sentence
 | image     = garden_path_sentence.png
-| imagesize = 273x273px
+| imagesize = 435x435px
 | noexpand  = true
 | titletext = Arboretum Owner Denied Standing in Garden Path Suit on Grounds Grounds Appealing Appealing

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	Another way to break it down is, "After [the] bird strikes, [the] judge... [is] overturned, but [she] rights and lands safely." And she was "[the] judge who ordered [that the] olive garden-path sentence" (the legal sentence concerning a path in an olive garden) "in" (what is known as) "[the] Case of [the] Green Walkways [be] vacated."		Another way to break it down is, "After [the] bird strikes, [the] judge... [is] overturned, but [she] rights and lands safely." And she was "[the] judge who ordered [that the] olive garden-path sentence" (the legal sentence concerning a path in an olive garden) "in" (what is known as) "[the] Case of [the] Green Walkways [be] vacated."
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		+	A third way is: "The stuff in this article happened after a bird hits a judge's plane where they ordered an "olive garden path" punishment in a court case about green footpaths and is now ON their empty plane which then overturns but then turns right and lands in a safe manner."

	This comic also pokes fun at newspaper headlines, which typically have minimal punctuation or articles and use only capital letters, leading to such ambiguities.		This comic also pokes fun at newspaper headlines, which typically have minimal punctuation or articles and use only capital letters, leading to such ambiguities.