Archive for June 2007

Garden Path Sentences

I recently came across an interesting post on the Powerset Blog recently about garden path sentences. Garden path sentences are sentences that lead you down the wrong path through a string of words with multiple meanings. For example,
The complex houses married and single students and their families
In this case, most readers would probably think complex [...]

Endless Google Search

April 2009 Update: Originally, I had an live example of this running. However, the Google API doesn’t seem to work any more (it was discontinued over two years ago). In any case, there are better examples online now. Try Live Search Images or Terrel Dent’s blog. I would make the source available, but it was [...]