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What's this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?
The ol switcheroo I believe.
But that's not important right now.
Oh god is this the the beginning of the ol lemmy switcheroo?? Hello future travellers, ~~welcome to the bottom of the pit~~ 🫡 edit: you're almost there! https://lemmy.world/comment/1851279
Not quite, someone started it already.
It may be a little while before it gets more mainstream though...
Hold my bottom, I'm going in!
Dangling modifiers or dangling participles. I think both are correct.