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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Nah, its fucked. I am not a linguist, but I think it's the syntax that's weird.

94 outdoor cats got rainbow sleeves attached to their collars.
After the sleeves were attached, the amount of birds that the cats brought home dropped by two thirds.
The amount of mice brought home remained consistent. This is because the mice cannot see the colors on the rainbow sleeve, but the birds can.

Seeing as how we're doing language fuckery and English isn't my first language and I know I do weird stuff with where and how I place sentences in relation to eachother, as well as fuck up where commas go all the time; well, please let me know what I've messed up here. Dont let me know if you think I didnt mess anything up, because I did, some of my sentences read weird.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

I took one semester of neurolinguistics and this reminds me of "garden path" sentences. Sentences that are grammatical at the syntax level, but sort of leads your brain into the wrong place and so "feels" ungrammatical.

"The old man the boat" "The horse raced past the barn fell"

I'm not saying it's quite the same, but my brain sure as fuck struggled to parse "the birds carried back through the flap fell"

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

Yep, much clearer how you've written it out. If they wanted to keep it as a run-on sentence

"94 cats were fitted with rainbow sweaters in a test which resulted in a two-thirds reduction in the number of dead birds brought home, with no noted reduction in dead mice brought home, this is believed to be because birds can see the rainbow colours while the mice cannot."

Much longer though when written with the signposting relational additions.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

glad i'm not the only one who had trouble parsing this sentence

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

I thought my dyslexic ESL ass was just hallucinating nonsense grammer again

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

I read this post last night at 2am, and thought "holy fuck I need to go to sleep, I don't understand what I just read"

[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 30 points 4 weeks ago

Apparently I am the exact right amount of stoned to understand that sentence stalin-smokin

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago

The syntax is completely fucked

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

Lots of mice in the comments

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate that I know that last panel is from Secret of NIHM 2: Timmy to The Rescue. Now you all know too.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Lol I thought it was from a Feivel.

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, those the three eldest children from the first movie and aunti shrew. I really liked the second one for some fucking reason as a child. Was def one of those things that did not survive adulthood. OG animation is amazing of course, given it's a Don Bluth

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

lol, ya, the good shit. Back when cartoons used to scare the crap out of kids. data-laughing

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

Lol exactly.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually searched for Feivel first before NIMH.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

Cats are PMC?

[–] JimLarkin@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

Fuck cats. Horrible invasive vermin.