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Did anyone else read the title as "Programmer from Finland has lost (finger replaced with USB drive)"? I have a tendency to lose USB keys...



I don't think this qualifies as a garden path sentence because the reader doesn't "build an incorrect structure because the next word doesn't fit into that structure".

This is more an example of syntactic ambiguity where a sentence may be "reasonably interpreted in more than one way": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity

Interesting link, though. I didn't know the formal term for these types of sentences.




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