the cottons shirts are made of comes from arizona

owlofcreamcheese · May 10, 2003, 6:19pm

the horse raced past the barn fell

fat people eat accumlates

ILENSER · May 10, 2003, 6:34pm

Ooooookay

lel · May 10, 2003, 7:30pm

Playing with magnetic poetry? Can I play too?

the horse comes from people

accumulates raced past arizona

fell fat eat the cottons

are made of the shirts

Buck_The_Diver · May 10, 2003, 9:09pm

Somewhere, the hamsters are crying.

Coldfire · May 11, 2003, 12:18am

Just what the hell IS this? Can someone tell me what’s going on here?

rjk · May 11, 2003, 1:00am

It looks like the OP is playing with parsing.

“The cotton, [that] the shirts are made of, comes from Arizona.”

And so on.

hegel · May 11, 2003, 1:25am

Yes, minimal attachment preference.

funions · May 11, 2003, 2:36am

I’m thinkin’ that it’s poorly put headlines.

owlofcreamcheese · May 11, 2003, 3:25am

garden path sentences is what they are called, they are like linguistic optical illusions.

I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter · May 11, 2003, 4:33am

Well, okay, it’s somewhat clever now that you’ve explained it…

Kerrigan · May 11, 2003, 4:43am

Try http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1998/garpath1.html for a bit more detail on garden path sentences.