[net.nlang] the classic ambiguous

dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (08/24/83)

Time flies like the wind

Does time fly by like the wind? Do time-flies (a cousin of the fruit-fly)
like the wind? Do you use your stopwatch to time flies? Am I wasting my
time?

	Afraid to admit I almost majored in linguistics once,
		Dave Sherman
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ingres@ucbcad.UUCP (08/27/83)

#R:utcsrgv:-208300:ucbcad:27300001:000:199
ucbcad!ingres    Aug 25 22:01:00 1983

How about

	a pretty little girls school

This has 17 distinct possible meanings (all, of course, quite distinctly
enumerable in Loglan; you will find them in Appendix A of "Loglan 1").
		Ken Arnold