15 Jun
2020
15 Jun
'20
12:28 p.m.
Thanks, everyone, for teaching me about scoping, Empson, etc. (Speaking of ambiguity, I just remembered that some years ago I commented on math-fun about the differing connotations of the sentences “X did not deceive Y” and “Y was not deceived by X”. Not sure if that’s an example of general species of linguistic ambiguity or just an isolated oddity.) Jim