Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
Interesting how our brain does pattern imposition. If you didnt understand the heading.. flies is a verb in the first sentence and a noun in the second one :). This is called "syntactic ambiguity".
"Train on fire, passengers alight." :) But I believe syntactic ambiguity is only when the reader is really unsure about what the statement means. In the "fruit flies like a banana case", although the reader misinterprets it while reading it initially, there is only one possible meaning here since a fruit cannot fly. Dont bother, I am just nitpicking :).
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all in all azhagu raniya irukkiye! :)
monkeys also like a banana :) hehe
Thanks for the compliment Rajesh :)
"Train on fire, passengers alight." :)
But I believe syntactic ambiguity is only when the reader is really unsure about what the statement means. In the "fruit flies like a banana case", although the reader misinterprets it while reading it initially, there is only one possible meaning here since a fruit cannot fly. Dont bother, I am just nitpicking :).
Thanks Harini for nitpicking :)
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