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A comment on An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar. Parent comment

Re:An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar by saulrh on Monday October 26, 2015 @02:39PM (#10453447)
I think I'd just woken up and didn't realize that I could have insulted your argument more strongly and directly. I apologize for that. Ignore that comment in favor of "The article could have concluded more correctly by disambiguating the statement into 'A black person shot a police officer.'".

And, honestly, I should have realized this argument was more or less pointless. The original article is strongly ideologically motivated and you can't argue someone out of a position they didn't argue themselves into.

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Re:An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar by moosemilkie on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:24PM (#10453775)
I merely wanted to let you know that your assumption that their example was hypothetical was wrong, since you filled it out with some fictitious details instead of the truth. Which you're still doing, in claiming that anybody shot a police officer - no officer was injured in the incident. This would make your suggestion less correct, rather than more correct, since it is false.
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