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arrow-up1379imagewisepostinglemmy.blahaj.zoneChloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · il y a 1 anmessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·il y a 1 anMan who walk sideways into airport turnstile going to Bangkok.
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·il y a 1 anTime flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
minus-squarey0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·il y a 1 anIs there a name for this type of humor because it’s the way my brain works and I can’t make it stop
minus-squarey0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·il y a 1 anThis is the beginning of the sentence you just finished reading.
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·il y a 1 anI’m sorry, and I’m going to have to share this with you: This is the Title of the Story, which is also found several times in the story itself. https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/titleOfTheStory.html
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·il y a 1 anThat link claims no author. I first saw it in Douglas Hofstadter’s Godel Escher Bach, which I can also highly recommend.
minus-squaredrolex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·il y a 1 anOh my god how did you know? Seriously amazing, I love it. Condolences to your brain though, it must take its toll.
minus-squarefinalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·il y a 1 anGarden path sentences
minus-squareTwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·il y a 1 anMan with hole in pocket feel cocky all day
minus-squareDaGeek247@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·il y a 1 anMan who runs behind car gets exhausted. Man who runs in front of car gets tired. Man who goes to bed with itchy butt wakes with stinky fingers.
Man who walk sideways into airport turnstile going to Bangkok.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Is there a name for this type of humor because it’s the way my brain works and I can’t make it stop
You’ve got zeugma
This is the beginning of the sentence you just finished reading.
I’m sorry, and I’m going to have to share this with you:
This is the Title of the Story, which is also found several times in the story itself.
https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/titleOfTheStory.html
lmao thank you for this
That link claims no author. I first saw it in Douglas Hofstadter’s Godel Escher Bach, which I can also highly recommend.
Oh my god how did you know?
Seriously amazing, I love it. Condolences to your brain though, it must take its toll.
Garden path sentences
Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day
Man who runs behind car gets exhausted.
Man who runs in front of car gets tired.
Man who goes to bed with itchy butt wakes with stinky fingers.