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  2. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana - Wikipedia

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    "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and antanaclasis.

  3. Tempus fugit - Wikipedia

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    An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".

  4. 50 Quotes About Time That Make You Grateful for Every Second

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    14. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus 15. “Life, if well lived, is long enough.” —Seneca If you have the time, read these gratitude quotes that will remind ...

  5. Anthony Oettinger - Wikipedia

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    He capsulized the challenges of machine translation with an example of syntactic ambiguity "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". [7] [8] Oettinger is a pioneer in the early development of computer code and artificial intelligence (AI) and wrote the first AI programs to incorporate learning.

  6. Garden-path sentence - Wikipedia

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    Adult L2 learners also exhibit difficulty in revisions, but the difficulties cannot be attributed to underdeveloped executive functioning like in children. In a 2015 study, adult L2 learners were compared to adult native speakers and native speaking children in revision and processing of garden-path sentences using act-out errors and eye ...

  7. Our DNA is 99.9 percent the same as the person sitting next ...

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    For example, fruit flies share 61 percent of disease-causing genes with humans, which was important when NASA studied the bugs to learn more about what space travel might do to your genes.

  8. The Internet Is 'Going Bananas' Over the Real Meaning of '4011'

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    The second half of your adult life begins when you start to memorize produce codes at the grocery store….bananas are 4011 🍌 — Taylor Ando (Imeson) (@TaylorImeson) September 7, 2023 Banana ...

  9. Anti-proverb - Wikipedia

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    These examples are presumably inspired by the quip "Time flies like the wind; fruit flies like a banana", attributed to Groucho Marx. [23] To be effective in written form, a garden-path proverb must have the same spelling and punctuation as the original proverb, up to the point where the reader is supposed to back up, as in the "time flies ...