Re: [math-fun] Quantifiers
There are also the interesting sentences "I love her cooking" and "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" among others. —Dan Veit Elser wrote: ----- ... two fine examples showing how even parts of speech can be ambiguous: “Time flies like an arrow” “Fruit flies like a banana” -----
I like the following two ambiguous sentences: Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. and: Police police police police police. There are multiple ways to parse these sentences. Tom Dan Asimov writes:
There are also the interesting sentences
"I love her cooking"
and
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"
among others.
—Dan
Veit Elser wrote: ----- ... two fine examples showing how even parts of speech can be ambiguous:
“Time flies like an arrow” “Fruit flies like a banana” -----
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