What’s this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?
Oh god is this the the beginning of the ol lemmy switcheroo?? Hello future travellers, welcome to the bottom of the pit 🫡 edit: you’re almost there! https://lemmy.world/comment/1851279
What’s this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?
The ol switcheroo I believe.
But that’s not important right now.
Oh god is this the the beginning of the ol lemmy switcheroo?? Hello future travellers,
welcome to the bottom of the pit🫡 edit: you’re almost there! https://lemmy.world/comment/1851279Not quite, someone started it already.
It may be a little while before it gets more mainstream though…
Hold my bottom, I’m going in!
Dangling modifiers or dangling participles. I think both are correct.