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Well one was built by a state elite gerontocracy who have centuries of being in charge and an utter contempt for the workers building the terminal and the ultimate users.

and the other was buill by the chinese

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Wow, nice twist. Didn't expect that at the end. Nice garden path sentences.

Not really, as garden path sentences are more about incorrect parsing of structure, rather than interpreting the meaning of the sentence to be something else. For example, reading the first sentence above, you can get all the way to the end without having re-evaluate the sentence from the beginning. It's only when you read the 2nd sentence that you realize that the writer was implying something different than you first thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence

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