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by lunchbox 5116 days ago
Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity.

I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft.com/) cried because of a new development kit.

Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_blossom#In_headlines

3 comments

Same. Then I read the article and couldn't figure out who was crying. Had you not posted anything, I'd have spent the rest of my evening scratching my head on that one.
For everyone else who is still confused (including me until a minute ago), join coder and cries with a dash.
Thanks, I now parse it as "Microsoft replies to coder concerns about new development kit".
Headlines That Capitalize Every Word can be annoying. Normal capitalization provides semantic value.
"Microsoft Answers", coder cries ...