Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Wordage

From an application to join my Yahoo Freecycle group:
 
"I have lots of used items and love to recycle."
 
(Guess how I read that.)

4 comments:

argotnaut said...

Ummm..."I have used lots of items"?

liz said...

Oh.

No, I thought they wanted to recycle some used love as well as used items.

argotnaut said...

Oh, yes! I should draw the two syntax trees for that.

liz said...

Just yesterday I was telling someone that I was that weird kid in high school who enjoyed diagramming sentences. They said should have been a linguist. Thank goodness I had you to accomplish that task!