Language learning fascinates me. A while back, I heard about a website called Livemocha that takes a community-oriented approach to language learning. It’s a bit of a cross between Facebook, Wikipedia, and the much-acclaimed Rosetta Stone language tutoring software, which teaches with images rather than by association with your native tongue.
On Livemocha, you can take [...]
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Don’t worry; there are no bananas hurtling through the air. This is one of the classic examples of “garden path sentences”—sentences that make you do a double-take because your interpretation of the grammar changes halfway through. They make a sudden, unexpected turn, apparently rather like paths in a garden. In this case, you think we’re [...]