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Offline StSanta

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« on: December 25, 2002, 07:31:33 AM »
They study for several years and then they come up with headlines that while syntaxically correct are ambiguous semantically.

Example from CNN:

"Community rescuing broke school district"

Now, did the community rescue a broke school district, or did the school district 'break' when the community did some sort of a rescue? :D

Does not compile: ambiguity problem.

Offline capt. apathy

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« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2002, 10:10:48 AM »
or did the school district become broke while doing rescuing within the community.

btw- the writers don't often pick the headlines. the guy running the newspaper does.  you can often see the same story pulled off the wire service with a different headline in different papers.