In which I use "darn" and "shameful" twice

[oloriel]

Darn, XKCD kinda beat me to the syntactic Christmas tree joke. I've been meaning to draw that one for a couple of years and always failed because I'm really bad with tree diagrams, so bad I'm not even certain I could correctly analyse "Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year" or the like. I know, shameful.Eh well, one less project

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[oloriel]

That style of structural diagram (in maths, linguistics, informatics, genealogy and probably a variety of other disciplines) is called a tree diagram. :)

A simple syntactic tree might look like this, for example:

[arwensommer]

... Ah! Now I don't feel so stupid anymore :)