crash blossom of the morning

[Victor Steinbok]

  Here's another one for you, although it's not as drastic.
>
> Small Joaquin Rodriguez shows big names his heels

Rodriguez won today's stage of Tour de France by outsprinting one of the
favorites after the two of them dropped the rest of the field on a
climb. Even with that knowledge, it took me a second to process the
headline. Maybe it's just me...

     VS-)


On 7/16/2010 1:42 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> Now LanguageLogged...
>
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2453
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu>  wrote:
>> Just walked past the USA Today dispenser and noticed this headline on
>> today's paper:
>>
>> BP Caps Ruptured Well, But More Hurdles Ahead
>>
>> My first thought was that I had watched the news last night and I
>> don't remember seeing anything about the caps rupturing.  Then I
>> realized "BP caps" wasn't the subject, "ruptured" wasn't the main
>> verb, and "well" wasn't an adverb.  (I suppose if I had thought about
>> it, it would have also occurred to me that it would be harder for a
>> cap to rupture well than for a knee, say, to break cleanly.)

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