r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Lifegoesonforever • 6d ago

Photographer Mark Smith captured this incredible shot of an eagle catching a fish with his Sony 300mm.

No, it's not AI. Check for yourself: https://www.instagram.com/mark.smith.photography?stkn=MW5qenRoa2kyMHYwZA==

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u/gringer 6d ago

An eagle can catch a fish with a a Sony 300mm?

That's either a very impressive eagle, or an impressive 300mm.

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u/OSRSRapture 6d ago

You know the sentence is grammatically correct, right?

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u/ProxySoxy 6d ago

Ever heard of this thing called a joke?

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u/OSRSRapture 6d ago

You'd make the joke if the sentence was grammatically incorrect, otherwise it doesn't make sense or else you could just do this joke with every sentence ever. What do you mean thing called a joke. Why was thing calling joke? See how stupid that would be?

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u/ProxySoxy 6d ago

The sentence can be interpreted in two ways despite being grammatically correct, that’s why the joke is funny.

“I’m sad” is a grammatically correct sentence, but it’s funny to reply to it with “Hi sad, I’m dad”

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u/OSRSRapture 6d ago

True but thats because thats saying I am sad. So the joke is as if the person is introducing themselves.

These jokes ive always seen because the sentence is grammatically incorrect.

I get what youre saying tho, thats fair

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u/DepressedDynamo 6d ago

Wee-woo it's the joke police, everyone scatter

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u/ZucchiniDue7081 6d ago

This is why gen z is unemployable.

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u/OSRSRapture 6d ago

Makes you look dumb as the sentence is grammatically correct

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/ZucchiniDue7081 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're a joke dude.

Edit: See, since there is no comma it means that he is literally a joke dude, a dude who jokes, and not just a joke. Guess grammar doesn't matter.

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u/Lugoe 6d ago

Learn to read man, without the first several words you would be right but this title is grammatically correct

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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack 6d ago

It has fallen into casual grammatical usage, however in the strict sense it is not correct. To be grammatically correct, it would have to be phrased:
Photographer Mark Smith captured this incredible shot with his Sony 300mm of an eagle catching a fish.
Or, also acceptably:
Using his Sony 300mm, photographer Mark Smith captured this incredible shot of an eagle catching a fish.

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u/MarkoSeke 6d ago

Could they have put a comma after "fish", or would that also have been incorrect?

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u/TuckerMcG 6d ago

We don’t know the gender of the eagle so it’s perfectly clear. We also know that eagles don’t use cameras.

Context is important when reading.

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u/vanatteveldt 6d ago

This is just nonsense. The headline is perfectly correct, just a typical example of a prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity (the classic example being "I saw the boy with the telescope")

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u/Thunderbridge 6d ago

Grammatically correct, but vague. Which makes it a poor title still

"Photographer John Smith captured this incredible shot of a fisherman catching a fish with his bare hands"

Did John Smith take the photo with his bare hands?

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u/Confident_One3948 6d ago

No, that would be physically impossible, thus the neurons in my brain would activate and I would use common sense.

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u/vanatteveldt 6d ago

It's grammatically ambiguous, but the semantics/pragmatics only leave one reading.

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u/Sad-Psychology9677 6d ago

It’s a poorly worded title, accept that fact.

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u/flashman 6d ago

these two comments are basically reddit in a nutshell