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Spanky
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10 November 2010 at 7:39pm | IP Logged 
A link to an article about lexically or structurally ambiguous sentences. A couple seem kinda lame, but there are some nice ones. In addition to the classic "time flies" one is the following (kinda shows the critical importance, of, accurate punctuation):

It was and I said not are and and and are are different.

This would undoubtedly place an English language learner at below A1 on the CEFR scale, but sprinkle in a few free punctuations marks and we get:

"It was 'and' I said, not 'are,' and 'and' and 'are' are different."

huffington post article - lexical ambiguity

Edited by Spanky on 10 November 2010 at 7:43pm



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