[Ads-l] "Towed truck"

[Randy Alexander]

If you call AAAAAAAAA for a truck truck's truck then should you call
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA for a truck truck truck's truck?

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 01:30 Randy Alexander <strangeguitars at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But, a towed towed truck should be something that a truck truck truck
> tows, so a towed truck should be something that a truck truck tows.
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 00:09 Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> =46rom a notice today on our local Nextdoor Whitneyville neighborhood =
>> e-mail list:
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>> TOWED TRUCK. Anyone with towed truck or Triple AAA? I need to bring my =
>> car to the junk yard please I will pay whoever does me the favor please
>>
>> [Just noticed the =E2=80=9CTriple AAA=E2=80=9D, which I guess goes in =
>> the "ATM machine=E2=80=9D bin.]
>> Pretty sure I=E2=80=99ve never seen =E2=80=9Ctowed truck=E2=80=9D before =
>> (other than for trucks that were towed), but we=E2=80=99ve encountered =
>> similar reanalyses. Given the iteration, it=E2=80=99s unlikely to be a =
>> typo.
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