The quick brown fox

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Dear Stephanie,

> Ah, but the sentence doesn't say "The horse that was raced past the
> barn fell" - the very nature of garden path sentences is their
> difficulty in parsing, and it's against the rules :P to add or
> subtract words from the sentence.

Well, the sentence /can/ be parsed as intended, but it won't until the 
listener/reader comes to "fell" because the intended construction is so 
rare and the unintended one is so commonplace.

I won't quibble about terminology. I've explained what happens, and you 
seem to understand. I'll leave it to others to decide what to call it.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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