Same. I was like "oh, so we have caterpillar drive in real life now?" (assuming screw = propeller)

Same. I had to read your comment and title several times each before it clicked.

Glad I'm not the only one. Tooke me awhile to figure out.

Same here

Came here to write a comment along those same lines haha

I wonder if there is a name for garden-path sentences which emerge from mis-reading or typos; or, more interestingly perhaps, a name for a garden path candidate sentence—which is being optimistically projected during reading—forcing a misreading.

An interesting sort of confirmation bias, which it is easy to interpret as "pressure from more abstract model layers, informing the word recognition layer"...

It's been studied. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w53k8/download

"Rational inference and good-enough processing actively trade off with each other during reading."

A slightly broader term would be "illusory inferences"

"Crash blossoms" (2010) [0]

"Noun piles" (2011-) [2,3]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage...

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4418

[2] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29803

Same, and now I'm fantasizing about the Netflix movie about manta rays unscrewing submarines

I was thinking, "That's a rude way to describe manta rays having reproductive problems."

"Uncrewed" is the gender-neutral replacement for "Unmanned" in the robotics industry these days.

Unmanned was already gender neutral, but hey… whatever makes people feel like they are virtuous

Thank you for your service in the culture wars.

Uh, what's up with the downvotes? I'm describing reality here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncrewed_vehicle

https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2022/09/08/are-autonomous-...

https://skymantics.com/the-faa-is-shifting-from-unmanned-to-...