[jfaulken]

I read that as "Manta Ray Unscrewed ..." and could not process the rest of the sentence.

Are manta rays attacking underwater vehicles now?

[zwieback]

Same, and now I'm fantasizing about the Netflix movie about manta rays unscrewing submarines

[alistairSH]

Same. I had to read your comment and title several times each before it clicked.

[aaroninsf]

I wonder if there is a name for garden-path sentences which emerge from mis-reading or typos; or, more interestingly perhaps, a name for a garden path candidate sentence—which is being optimistically projected during reading—forcing a misreading.

An interesting sort of confirmation bias, which it is easy to interpret as "pressure from more abstract model layers, informing the word recognition layer"...

[hammock]

It's been studied. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w53k8/download

"Rational inference and good-enough processing actively trade off with each other during reading."

A slightly broader term would be "illusory inferences"

[quercusa]

"Crash blossoms" (2010) [0]

"Noun piles" (2011-) [2,3]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage...

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4418

[2] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29803

[nielsbot]

Same. I was like "oh, so we have caterpillar drive in real life now?" (assuming screw = propeller)

[not_your_mentat]

I was thinking, "That's a rude way to describe manta rays having reproductive problems."

[0x457]

Glad I'm not the only one. Tooke me awhile to figure out.

[jpm_sd]

"Uncrewed" is the gender-neutral replacement for "Unmanned" in the robotics industry these days.

[jtms]

Unmanned was already gender neutral, but hey… whatever makes people feel like they are virtuous

[sangnoir]

Thank you for your service in the culture wars.

[jpm_sd]

Uh, what's up with the downvotes? I'm describing reality here.

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

https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2022/09/08/are-autonomous-...

https://skymantics.com/the-faa-is-shifting-from-unmanned-to-...

[manuelkehl]

Came here to write a comment along those same lines haha

[pineaux]

Same here