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Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

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Ne, Ne, by 追川うそ

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Gamer cats

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Wicked neat

lil cutscene loop from my game

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IM REALLY EXCITED GUYS

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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

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I never guessed that in my adulthood, I’d be relating to Calvin’s parents as much as I do in this comic.

Because damn … Calvin’s dad was so right.

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Cute baby seals about to be released back into the wild

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There is a specific and terrifying difference between “never were” monsters and “are not anymore” monsters

“The thing that was not a deer” implies a creature which mimics a deer but imperfectly and the details which are wrong are what makes it terrifying

“The thing that was not a deer anymore” on the other hand implies a thing that USED to be a deer before it was somehow mutated, possessed, parasitically controlled or reanimated improperly and what makes THAT terrifying is the details that are still right and recognizable poking out of all the wrong and horrible malformations.

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TWO MONTHS LEFT OF THE 2010S HOW ARE WE FEELING

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Thanks

“The privatisation of stress has been normalised. The fact that young people are depressed, who gives a shit. See, this is the idea, young people are depressed, well that’s just part of life. It wasn’t part of life. It was not part of life. The increase of depression among young people is shocking and that ought to be the biggest possible indicator of condemnation of the world in which we now live in. It wasn’t normal for young people to be depressed in the 70s, let’s say. (…) You have been deprived of things and the things that you have been deprived of are being sold to you as benefits, as a great new world, you’ve got all this stuff, you’ve got all this capacity to do things, it just isn’t like that.” — Mark Fisher

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Can someone tell me what this post says? Apparently I cant read lies

dont worry… someone out there with a cute face and a beautiful heart is waiting specifically for you

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I just love this. Give me a weird sense of nostalgia.

Beast Boy’s Snapchat

By the amazing and talented @gabriel-picolo!

Link to his OG post in the comments! Give him love for this amazing work!

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