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    25 Jun 2008
    lonelysandwich: Language jokes with Emo Philips. wikipedia/Emo_Philips: Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences. A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: “Take my wife — please.” — Henny Youngman Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that human beings process language one word at a time. Example: “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” — Groucho Marx

    lonelysandwich:

    Language jokes with Emo Philips.

    wikipedia/Emo_Philips: Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences.

    A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part.

    Example: “Take my wife — please.” — Henny Youngman

    Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that human beings process language one word at a time.

    Example: “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” — Groucho Marx

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