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Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Using a Garden Path Sentence
i turned to my language friends on twitter for help. Because it turns out there are a few different things your examples are almost like. The first one is what's called a garden path sentence, so called because the sentence leads you down the garden path and then tricks you by ending up somewhere you didn't expect to be. A similar language trick or problem is called a crash blossom, which usually seems to be reserved for confusing headlines. So i propose a new name for these overlapping figures of speech: sabantas back.
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