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Garden Path

    pa crino tricu
    bo pipybanfi
    ku zutse pa dakli be
    le pilka be le tricu

Anyways there was a very green frog (Pseudacris regilla, probably) perched on a bag of bark, maybe because the area was in the shade and somewhat moist, being on the north side of the building. The other garden path here is "a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect" insofar as this is possible in lojban. Here a line break is used to trick the reader; we start off with "a green tree" but the next line gives a bo which joins the tree tighter to pipybanfi, so it's a (green (tree frog)) once you get to the second line, not the default ((green tree) frog) without the bo. Garden path sentences are really better done in not lojban, where you can usually play around with homonyms, verb nouns, or who knows what else to really cause the reader to stop and have to rethink the sentence.

tags #lojban