Friday, June 5, 2009

I made her duck

Just want to share this amusing sentence of ambiguity. I read it in a Natural Language Processing text. It was used to demonstrate how ambiguous a sentence can get (although pretty surely, our daily sentences won't be that bad unless we are intentionally concorting them).

Just in case you don't get all the possible meanings of the given sentence, "I made her duck" can mean
1) I cooked the poor creature for her
2) I created (perhaps a doll) a duck that she owns
3) I get her bent down
4) I learnt transfiguration magic from Prof. McGonagall

Hope you like the sentence :)

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