@[email protected] to Ask LemmyEnglish • 4 months agoWhat zombie work across all mediums does it better?message-square22fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down112
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•4 months agoNever 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•4 months agoThat’s what irks me about this lazy dropping of the ‘of’ after ‘couple’ “I saw a couple birds” You saw them do what now?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 months agoI fail to see the path you took to OPs garden.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 months agoMy 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.
In today’s example of a garden path sentence …
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.
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?
I fail to see the path you took to OPs garden.
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.