Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 个月前wisepostinglemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1379
arrow-up1379imagewisepostinglemmy.blahaj.zoneChloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 9 个月前message-square22fedilink
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·9 个月前Man who walk sideways into airport turnstile going to Bangkok.
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up16·9 个月前Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
minus-squarey0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 个月前Is 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-up8·9 个月前This is the beginning of the sentence you just finished reading.
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 个月前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
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 个月前That 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-up2·9 个月前Oh my god how did you know? Seriously amazing, I love it. Condolences to your brain though, it must take its toll.
minus-squareTwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 个月前Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day
minus-squareDaGeek247@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 个月前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.
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.