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Re: [lojban] Some ambiguous sentences
John Cowan writes:
>Here are a few pairs of sentences: individually not ambiguous to human beings,
>but having the same formal English parses. Source:
>http://www.cyc.com/products2.html
>
> Fred saw the plane flying over Zurich.
> Fred saw the mountains flying over Zurich.
Perhaps I read too much science fiction, but without the 'while' in the
second sentence, I consistently parse it as being about flying
mountains.
-Robin
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... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our
own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our
desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_