[Ads-l] ambiguities

[Dan Goncharoff]

https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/jw-anderson-mens-skort-autumn-winter-2013



On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 10:55 AM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 12:37 PM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How is "Women's skorts" ambiguous?
>
> I'll concede it is hardly ambiguous, but it still produces an
> uncertainty:  the specification of "Women's" seems to imply that there are
> skorts other than women's and "Women's" is needed to specify what subset of
> skorts is being sold.
>
> - Jim Landau
>
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