On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Peter Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Christopher Subich wrote:
>> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider
>> the sentence:
>>
>> "The horse raced past the barn fell."
>>
>> It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that
>> occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire
>> sentence.
>
>I can't parse that at all. Are you sure it's correct? Aren't "raced"
>and "fell" both trying to be verbs on the same subject? English surely
>doesn't allow that forbids that sort of thing. (<wink>)
I had a heck of a time myself. Try "The horse that was raced..." and
see if it doesn't make more sense.
Regards,
-=Dave
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