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Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity. I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft

Off topic: the "headlinese" title of this article results in syntactic ambiguity. I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft.com/ http://answers.microsoft.com/) cried because of a new development kit. Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_blossom#In_headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_blossom#In_headlines

glhaynes 14y ago
Headlines That Capitalize Every Word can be annoying. Normal capitalization provides semantic value.
danilocampos 14y ago
Same. Then I read the article and couldn't figure out who was crying. Had you not posted anything, I'd have spent the rest of my evening scratching my head on that one.
- ars 14y ago
  For everyone else who is still confused (including me until a minute ago), join coder and cries with a dash.
  - user24 14y ago
    Thanks, I now parse it as "Microsoft replies to coder concerns about new development kit".
f0r 14y ago
"Microsoft Answers", coder cries ...