crash blossom
nounEtymology
From a headline, "Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms". The author's intended interpretation is that the violinist (Diana Yukawa), who has blossomed, is linked to a JAL plane crash (since her father was on the plane). However, through syntactic ambiguity, the sentence can also be interpreted to mean that the violinist was linked to something called a "crash blossom".
Definitions
A sentence, often a news headline, that is subject to incorrect interpretation due to…
A sentence, often a news headline, that is subject to incorrect interpretation due to syntactic and/or lexical ambiguity.
- Nouns that can be misconstrued as verbs and vice versa are, in fact, the hallmarks of the crash blossom. Take this headline, often attributed to The Guardian: “British Left Waffles on Falklands.”
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for crash blossom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA