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General => Entertainment => Topic started by: Blizzard on April 29, 2009, 03:36:15 pm

Title: Ambiguous Statements
Post by: Blizzard on April 29, 2009, 03:36:15 pm
There are so many of them. Here is one.

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One power up to Stealth for that one. xD
Title: Re: Ambiguous Statements
Post by: fugibo on April 29, 2009, 04:29:32 pm
Technically, you're supposed to be a comma after "huge" in that. Proper English and what-not. So technically, you're wrong.
Title: Re: Ambiguous Statements
Post by: RoseSkye on April 29, 2009, 04:57:01 pm
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Title: Re: Ambiguous Statements
Post by: Blizzard on April 29, 2009, 05:33:31 pm
Quote from: WcW on April 29, 2009, 04:29:32 pm
Technically, you're supposed to be a comma after "huge" in that. Proper English and what-not. So technically, you're wrong.


Nope. "huge, metalic fan" would need a comma, but here "metal" is part of "metal fan" which acts as one entity. My two cents.
Title: Re: Ambiguous Statements
Post by: fugibo on April 29, 2009, 06:53:22 pm
That would only be the case if the fan was saying he was a fan of metal. However, that wouldn't be ambiguous. The only other interpretation, which would be the fan saying he is huge and metallic, would require a comma to separate distinct adjectives.
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