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Escher Sentences (en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sajforbes 2231 days ago
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The thing I find interesting about these is that, normally, when you hear something ungrammatical, you get an instant feeling of non-correctness. For example if I were to say "The people is walking down the street" - it instantly stands out to you as wrong. That same feeling doesn't seem to happen with Escher sentences.

While not the same idea, it reminds me of garden path sentences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence