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Showing posts with label ambiguities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ambiguities. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Homophonic Commas

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A cereal comma - Serial, cereal commas - I am a believer in serial commas for their use in preventing ambiguities. Thank you 22 Word s for ...
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Ambiguity Generators

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I passed a van the other day with a custom paint job that advertised the name of a company - Budget Generators . My first thought upon seein...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Pragmatics and Crossword Puzzles

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Where crossword puzzles are concerned, pragmatics can be viewed as the ability of the solver to interpret correctly the meaning or sense the...
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