A potentially ambiguous headline in today's paper:
"Police: Father let child drive while he was drunk"
My first thought was "The child was drunk?" Maybe this is the mom in me. Then I read that the child is a daughter.
Did you find this ambiguous?
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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1 comment:
Yes, most certainly ambiguous!
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