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Monday June 17, 2002

03:41 AM

Semantic ambiguity

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"Free to good home - Baby carrying rucksack"

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illiteracy (Score:1)

by jdporter (36)

this is exactly the point of one of my pedantry peeves. I see it a LOT in gummint communications and bureaucratese. If the author had simply added the requisite hyphen --
baby-carrying rucksack
-- then all would be well.

Either way, there is no ambiguity. Without the hyphen, we have a baby carrying a rucksack. EOS.

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