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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Ambiguity and punctuation
Message-ID: <354@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 21:39:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 21:39:01 1984
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Here is a puzzle that was circulating at MIT (esp. in the MIT
Science Fiction Society) about 1966:

By adding punctuation, make as many different utterances out
of the words:
   
   what is this thing called love

Ex.: "What! Is this thing called love??"

BTW "Thing" = Icelandic Parliament, so capitalising the word
approximately doubles the number of constructions.

Regards,
Chris

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