[mod.ai] Ambiguous sentences cont.

G.TJM@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Ted Markowitz) (03/04/86)

Yet another ambiguous sentence that I've run across in NLP classes
is:

	"The host smiled as he turned on the electric spit."

I leave it to reader to generate the permutations...

--ted
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colonel@SUNYBCS.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (03/10/86)

I missed the start of this.... Has anybody mentioned Pynchon's "You
never did the Kenosha kid"?

It appears in one of Lt. Slothrop's hallucinations during an experiment
involving drugs.  It parses/puncutates in at least a dozen ways.  I'd
give you a citation, but I don't have a copy of Gravity's Rainbow handy.