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Therapy centre hack suspect faces aggravated blackmail, other charges

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Re: Therapy centre hack suspect faces aggravated blackmail, other charges

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Post by DFHippie »

JshWright wrote: post #2

I realize this "Therapy centre hack suspect faces..." is the original title, but it's a bit of a garden path sentence. I had to read it twice to parse it correctly.

A title for a different article:

"Therapy centre hack suspect faces, aggravated blackmail, other charges: three noun phrases without a conjunction."

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Post by Jhsto »

JshWright wrote: post #2

I realize this "Therapy centre hack suspect faces..." is the original title, but it's a bit of a garden path sentence. I had to read it twice to parse it correctly.

This is actually quite common in Finnish, since there is no strict word ordering. Once you have figured out all the words and their agglutinations, you can put them in any order. Many phrases don't parse until you heard all of it.

Re: Therapy centre hack suspect faces aggravated blackmail, other charges

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Post by mjhay »

DFHippie wrote: post #3
JshWright wrote: post #2

I realize this "Therapy centre hack suspect faces..." is the original title, but it's a bit of a garden path sentence. I had to read it twice to parse it correctly.

A title for a different article: "Therapy centre hack suspect faces, aggravated blackmail, other charges: three noun phrases without a conjunction."

There's supposed to be hack suspect faces, but I only see a picture of one face in the article.
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