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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

HW 8B

p. 175 EX7B 2 (c)-(g)

Challenge: In grad school, my logic professor challenged us to come up with as many interpretations of this syntactically ambiguous sentence.  How many can you come up with?

The clown hit the elephant with a twinkie on its forehead.
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