I have never undestood why garden path sentences are interesting. They can always be rewritten to make more obvious sense. Its like saying theres a way to take any sentence and remove some words to make its intended meaning confusing. I dont personally find this interesting, just frustrating that the author didnt take more time to use punctuation or more words to convey explicit meaning.
Yes, daemonized children must always be killed; preferably by the parent, but any reaper would also work.
Is that a forking path sentence? If so, whoosh.
I have never undestood why garden path sentences are interesting. They can always be rewritten to make more obvious sense. Its like saying theres a way to take any sentence and remove some words to make its intended meaning confusing. I dont personally find this interesting, just frustrating that the author didnt take more time to use punctuation or more words to convey explicit meaning.
Tell more about garden paths in this context, I'm curious!
I had no idea what a garden path sentence was, too, but wiki to the rescue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
The old man the boat
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