Dangling modifiers or dangling participles. I think both are correct.
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Deebster@programming.dev 9 months ago
What’s this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The ol switcheroo I believe.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But that’s not important right now.
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Oh god is this the the beginning of the ol lemmy switcheroo?? Hello future travellers, welcome to the bottom of the pit 🫡
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not quite, someone started it already.
It may be a little while before it gets more mainstream though…
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hold my bottom, I’m going in!