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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "Our Concern is Growing": Ortho's Triple Ambiguity (+ challenge)
Message-ID: <341@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 10:40:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: cepu.341
Posted: Wed Sep 19 10:40:58 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:21:54 EDT
References: <143@scc.UUCP> <699@fritz.UUCP> <1244@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods)
Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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In article <1244@ucla-cs.ARPA> David Smallberg writes:
>
> >The following variation on "He made the robot fast" has
> >at least 6 interpretations:
> > "He made her fast"
> > 1. He forced her to not eat for a while.
> > 2. She was not eating and he managed to get there.
> > 3. When he got there, he made it a success.
> > 4. He was a track coach and improved her speed.
> > 5. He nailed her down (as in "held fast").
> > 6. They had sex quickly.
> > Toby Gottfried
>
>#6 has two meanings (both in the original and the paraphrase):
> 6a. They duration of their coupling was short.
> 6b. They had sex very early on in their relationship.
>(Sorry about the awkwardness of these paraphrases -- it's hard to disambiguate
>"quickly" (the action itself was quick vs. the time up to the action was
>short).)
>
>-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das
Then there's:
7. He made a robot that liked to got to parties, and have sex.
(As in "a fast woman"), [I wonder why "a fast man" in this
context is null?].
--
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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