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Starfish See Pretty Well in the Deep Ocean (nytimes.com)
36 points by dnetesn on Feb 10, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Strange headline for an animal without a brain. It does have a central nervous system, and responds to light from the eyes on the end of each of its arms — numbering anywhere from 5 to 40.


Took me three goes to realize "well" was an adverb not a noun...


So you first parsed the sentence as saying 1) there's a well in the deep ocean 2) the well is pretty and 3) starfish can see it. That makes grammatical sense but not, I think, any other kind.


It also makes sense if you watch SpongeBob SquarePants.

There's quite a lot happening in Bikini Bottom. For example you can see a "pretty pineapple" down there. And I haven't watched enough episodes to be sure, but doubtlessly someone has fallen down a well.




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