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wyldfire
on Dec 11, 2015
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How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat
On HN, "engineers" is usually a plural noun. This took a few re-reads to parse.
dionidium
on Dec 11, 2015
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It's a Garden Path Sentence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
krisdol
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Same here, and with the lowercase "the", my mind kept reading it as "How the Food Industry Engineers Need to Eat". Unfortunate but I don't think it's wrong.
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