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Ethel Duath
Gondolin
Fri, 7:22pm
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How about a contest? Come up with similar reversals that
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don't reverse.
Maybe like "fish eagle" or "cloud formation."
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dernwyn
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Fri, 7:33pm
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Probably proofread by AI!
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Lissuin
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Fri, 11:29pm
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A reversal that kinda works and one that doesn't:
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mushroom basket
basket mushroom
There may be mushroom cats, but I have yet to come across a cat mushroom.
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Ethel Duath
Gondolin
2:09am
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Those *are* mushroom baskets!
There may not be a mushroom cat, or a cat mushroom, but there certainly is a basket cat.
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Lissuin
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2:14am
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That cat looks like she's been eating magic mushrooms.
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CuriousG
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2:59pm
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"This stomach-dissolving pill works wonders once swallowed" //
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I think word order is just a fussy thing for English teachers in 8th grade. 
Has anyone else noticed in science headlines the last few years, "There's Been Exploding Gut Bacteria in Lab Research Everywhere."
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DGHCaretaker
Nargothrond
3:01pm
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Ah, so that's what / was in the basket!
So I'm curious. How does one decide where the line break goes?
I mean, wouldn't "Ah, so / that's what was in the basket!" work just as well? And so on...
Actors practice and test which words to accentuate in their lines. Maybe that's what it's like.
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Ethel Duath
Gondolin
4:29pm
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 it's driven, for me, by the fact that long headlines don't work well here. As far as division, it's mostly by feel, and probably based (being a professional violinist) on some vague-Ish idea of what sort of interruption I want to use to affect how something lands or what is noticed more or noticed less. But I don't spend more in a second or two thinking about it, since I don't think I would ever be doing it at all if the headlines would display a whole sentence more easily.
Maybe the next iteration of the boards–hopefully coming soon, since I would think it would help with bot elimination
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Ethel Duath
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4:42pm
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I get it–that's to make room for the pill-stomach to take over and function instead of your regular stomach. People will be lining up to try it.
And oh my goodness, that is hysterical! So many wonderful ways to read that: "Exploding guts were everywhere!" Or, "Gut Bacteria Implicated in Mysterious Lab Fires."
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Ha!
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