Unfortunate coordination department
And this just in, from the F&BN's coverage of the case of the missing 7-year-old in Florida (alas, the "65 pounds of innocence: vanished" hed seems to have vanished too):
Somer's mother and boyfriend searched up and down the block for her when she didn't come home.
Not to break the mood or anything, but -- whose boyfriend?
Somer's mother and boyfriend searched up and down the block for her when she didn't come home.
Not to break the mood or anything, but -- whose boyfriend?
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posted by fev at 1:37 PM
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I think you'd have to be awfully generous to read that as meaning anything other than "Somer's (mother and boyfriend)" = "Somer's mother and Somer's boyfriend". If it said "Somer's mother and her boyfriend", I agree that that would be ambiguous.
Hee hee! You'll be delighted at the update: "Somer's mother's boyfriend searched up and down the block for her when she didn't come home"
Hah! There is no ambiguity in either of them. Too bad they each mean something different.
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