[Ads-l] crash blossom candidate

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 13 01:37:47 UTC 2015


> On Nov 12, 2015, at 8:11 PM, David Daniel <dad at COARSECOURSES.COM> wrote:
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> From ACLU.org
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> "How Can the Justice Department Help CIA Torture Victims?"
> By giving them a battery and some jumper cables?
> DAD
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But the intended meaning here is indeed "How can the DoJ assist the CIA in torturing victims?", not "How can the DoJ help the victims of CIA torture?"
So I don't think it's a crash blossom in the usual sense.  (Or maybe the dual reading was intended.)

LH
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