{"id":406923,"date":"2010-03-09T07:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2010-03-09T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:49:29","slug":"toward-a-better-crash-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406923","title":{"rendered":"Toward a better crash blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really good <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?s=%22crash+blossom%22\">crash blossom<\/a> slows down even a fast reader who is a professional grammarian with a lot of experience in rapid reprocessing of garden-path ambiguities. And this one (<em>New York Times<\/em>, March 8; thanks to Helenmary Sheridan) is a really good one, which they might better have rephrased:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong> Google&#8217;s Computer Might Betters Translation Tool <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Took me a full extra second or two (and that is a long time in sentence processing) to find the main clause verb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really good crash blossom slows down even a fast reader who is a professional grammarian with a lot of experience in rapid reprocessing of garden-path ambiguities. And this one (New York Times, March 8; thanks to Helenmary Sheridan) is a really good one, which they might better have rephrased: Google&#8217;s Computer Might Betters Translation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}