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Comment by atomwaffel

As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for this is garden path sentence[1][2] and it's such a good one that it makes me wonder if it's deliberate.

Even just some small adjustments would make it more readable: "Japanese pictures may show melted fuel from Fukushima for the first time."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldT2g2qDQNQ

parent atomwaffel 9 years ago

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