Sunday, January 22, 2012

NPR on the garden path

Just heard this momentarily misleading report on "All Things Considered":
A Pennsylvania hospital says it was spreading lung cancer …
Wait, spreading it how? It’s not contagious, is it? Well, no:
… it was spreading lung cancer that killed Joe Paterno.
Amazing how far your mind can race down the wrong fork of a garden-path sentence before the truth catches up with it.

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