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Ha, it's like a branch misprediction but for language, very cool

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...

Trying to imagine time flies, here. Generally, I hate flies. I imagine that time flies bite something. But what?

banana? ;)

Something out of Lovecraft, I think.

Great read! The see also links have a lot of other peculiar sentences that I've come across frequently but never considered they were constructed deliberately nor that there were actual terms describing the oddities.

TIL, thanks.

The wiki page was posted on HN earlier this year, here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613213