Re:The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery startups
by x1798DE on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:04PM
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Bit OT but does this count as a garden path sentence? I originally parsed it like:
- "The leaky bucket of Indian food" - a leaking bucket of Indian food
- "The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery" - a metaphorical leaky bucket of delivering Indian food
- "The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery startups" - metaphorical leaky bucket that is Indian startups delivering food.
I don't know that the second change in meaning counts as a garden path, though, since while it did change the noun modified by "Indian" from "food" to "startup", that was from context, not gramatical necessity.
- "The leaky bucket of Indian food" - a leaking bucket of Indian food
- "The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery" - a metaphorical leaky bucket of delivering Indian food
- "The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery startups" - metaphorical leaky bucket that is Indian startups delivering food.
I don't know that the second change in meaning counts as a garden path, though, since while it did change the noun modified by "Indian" from "food" to "startup", that was from context, not gramatical necessity.