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Garden path sentences in other languages? | ||
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 17 of 20 15 March 2012 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Nope. Except maybe special cases I can't recall now, adjectives always agree in gender and number with the noun(s) they refer to. Thus: *El coche naranja (note "naranja" and many -but not all, possibly not even "most"- colours have no different masculine/feminine forms). *Los coches naranjas. but you can say "Los coches de color naranja" and have singular "naranja" because it applies to the colour there, and not directly to the cars. Edited by mrwarper on 15 March 2012 at 8:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Heather McNamar Senior Member United States Joined 4782 days ago 77 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 18 of 20 16 March 2012 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just saw this in a magazine and thought I'd throw it in:
Q: When is a car not a car? A: When it turns into a driveway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nevermore78 Diglot Newbie Argentina Joined 4605 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB1 | Message 19 of 20 16 April 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I came up with a couple of examples in Spanish. I think they qualify as garden path sentences:
"A causa de la alta tasa media hace un año una orden judicial." "Al establecer una una suma razonable de ganancia fija cada vendedor un precio acorde." What do you think? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 20 of 20 17 April 2012 at 11:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Correct. Now all that's left is find examples where the 'forking' happens as early as possible and it is found out as late as possible.
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