January 2011
Fire Keese
fuckyeahzelda:
I saw this and immediately thought of fire keese :D The above is birds with a nearby fire reflecting off their dark feathers. Don’t worry I didn’t take the photo :P
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...
eastwestcollision:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo <— it’s a grammatically correct sentence!
More oddities in English
Syntactic ambiguity
Demonstrations of ambiguity between alternate syntactic structures underlying a sentence.
The man saw the boy with the binoculars.
They are hunting dogs.
Police help dog bite victim.
He saw that gas can explode.
We...
I wanted to share this, on the subject of language...
recursiverecursion:
plein-de-vie:
The Garden Path sentence leads you “down the garden path” (one train of thought), but seems to abruptly change midway through. The English-thinker has adapted to think that many sentences that begin one way will continue in the same manner, and garden path sentences take advantage of this. For instance:
The old man the boat.
At a first glance, this just...
br0hammad:
dropletsoflove:
If I sleep to much, my parents complain.
If I don’t get enough sleep, my parents complain.
If I eat too much, my parents complain.
If I don’t eat enough, my parents complain.
If I’m always in my room, my parents complain.
If I go out too much, my parents complain.
I CAN’T FUCKING WIN.
this.
XD
fuckyeahfirstpersonshooters:
So I hear a lot of you guys are mad about the...
medical-mechanica:
chill-andstuff:
idiocyatitsfinest:
allenthomasplaysthedrums:
I know right?
That’s true.. wait..
I see what you did there.
