La madre de un alumno

Perikles · #1 December 10, 2010, 04:42 AM

Encontré en El País:

la madre de un alumno de 5 años que agredió a la maestra

Who hit the teacher?

**AngelicaDeAlquezar** · #2 December 10, 2010, 07:55 AM

Amphibology did.

But the rest of the sentence makes it clearer:

Quote:

...la madre de un alumno de 5 años que agredió a la maestra de su hijo...

Perikles · #3 December 10, 2010, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

But the rest of the sentence makes it clearer:

I didn't notice that.

Thanks.

(but we still never use the word amphibology

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hermit · #4 December 10, 2010, 10:43 AM

I've never heard "amphibology" used, although it does mean
"an ambiguous grammatical construction".

**AngelicaDeAlquezar** · #5 December 10, 2010, 02:59 PM

Oh well, I will try to remember "ambiguity" each time I want to write "amphibology" then.

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