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Garden-path sentences. Or comparative illusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_illusion

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ขอบคุณ! The garden-path admits of a consistent, yet initially unpredicted reading, while the comparative illusion is exactly what I'd been groping for: locally cromulent but globally uffish.