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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by bitshiftfaced on Saturday September 30, 2023 @10:25AM (#37715743)
I spent too much time trying to parse the meaning of this headline. I wish HN would train a regressor for the difficulty in understanding a headline's meaning, and then automatically restrict them past some threshold.
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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by dylan604 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @10:55AM (#37716019)
release ^that judge

Is it really that difficult?

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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by jcranmer on Saturday September 30, 2023 @11:19AM (#37716267)
It is a noun phrase (which means there's no main predicate verb) where 4 words in the middle could be read as verbs. So yes, it can actually take a few tries to parse the headline correctly.
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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by mandmandam on Saturday September 30, 2023 @11:02AM (#37716088)
It is, yeah.
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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by londonReed on Saturday September 30, 2023 @11:38AM (#37716460)
No, not really.
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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by kens on Saturday September 30, 2023 @12:21PM (#37716952)
What is the correct parsing of the headline? At first I figured it was a regular garden-path sentence [1] but after multiple readings I still can't figure it out.

[1] A garden-path sentence is one where you find at the end that the expected parsing is wrong. e.g. "The old man the boat" or "The horse raced past the barn fell". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

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Re:DOJ vs. Google evidence release judge calls embarrassing ... by branweb on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:46PM (#37717875)
New evidence was released in the DOJ vs Google case. The judge for the case called this evidence "embarrassing" to Google.

It's a bad headline. There's no a complete sentence here. "DOJ vs. Google evidence release" is a noun phrase ("release" here is used as a noun), modified by the clause "that judge calls embarrassing exhibit". In that clause, "judge" is the subject, "calls" is the verb, "that" is the direct object, and "embarrassing exhibit" is an object compliment, which refers to the same thing as "that". So basically we just have a big noun phrase.

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