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[-] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

I took one semester of neurolinguistics and this reminds me of "garden path" sentences. Sentences that are grammatical at the syntax level, but sort of leads your brain into the wrong place and so "feels" ungrammatical.

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

I'm not saying it's quite the same, but my brain sure as fuck struggled to parse "the birds carried back through the flap fell"

this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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