"Protester dressed as Boris Johnson scales Big Ben"

Lingua Franca 2019-10-22

Summary:

Sometimes it's hard for us humans to see the intended meaning of an ambiguous phrase, like "Hospitals named after sandwiches kill five". But in other cases, the intended structure comes easily to us, and we have a hard time seeing the alternative, as in the case of "Extinction rebellion protester dressed as Boris Johnson scales […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44767

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Tags:

computational

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/22/2019, 10:03

Date published:

10/22/2019, 09:43