"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...
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The arrow of time, also called time's arrow, is the concept positing the "one-way direction" or "asymmetry" of time. It was developed in 1927 by the British...
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song by Half Man Half Biscuit from Back in the DHSS "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana", a humorous example of syntactic ambiguity Tempus...
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Tempus fugit (category Time management)
The phrase's full appearance in Virgil's Georgics is: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Ars longa, vita brevis Carpe diem Got a Lot o'...
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'mock' - one is 'to cheat' another is 'to taunt'. "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" is an example of a garden path sentence – the first...
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flies like to fly around clocks. ("time flies like an arrow" / the habits of "time flies", a fictitious kind of fly.) Proverbs beginning with Time flies like...
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emerged from early 1960s machine translation research, is "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". Significantly enough, structural ambiguities...
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Eats shoots...
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Time flies like an arrow has (at least) the interpretations Time moves as quickly as an arrow, A special kind of fly, called time fly, likes arrows and...
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Pieces for viola and piano (2006) Viola Sonata in A Minor (2005) Time Flies like an Arrow for violin, cello and piano (2011) – Commissioned by the Klavier-Festival...
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