Friday, July 19, 2013

Crash Blossom

I only learned this term recently; it refers to syntactic ambiguity (typically from newspaper headlines).

This example is from a news article entitled "Judge X to run for re-election."  The third paragraph reads in full:
Judge X, who is the only judge of the four candidates seeking to fill two seats, is running on the Republican, Conservative, Working Families and Independence party lines.
It actually took me a while to figure out what they really meant.   

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