Toward a better crash blossom
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A really good crash blossom slows down even a fast reader who is a professional grammarian with a lot of experience in rapid reprocessing of garden-path ambiguities. And this one (New York Times, March 8; thanks to Helenmary Sheridan) is a really good one, which they might better have rephrased:
Google's Computer Might Betters Translation Tool
Took me a full extra second or two (and that is a long time in sentence processing) to find the main clause verb.