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  1. Newsgroups: soc.motss
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!emory!rigel.econ.uga.edu!dogwood!hughes
  3. From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
  4. Subject: Re: Clinton Gets Earful at Open House
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan23.025436.13904@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
  6. Sender: news@rigel.econ.uga.edu
  7. Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens
  8. References: <1993Jan22.163731.15843@PacBell.COM> <1993Jan22.200150.16444@netcom.com> <1993Jan23.022927.19541@reed.edu>
  9. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:54:36 GMT
  10. Lines: 19
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan23.022927.19541@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
  13. >In article <1993Jan22.200150.16444@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
  14. >
  15. >>>"And I wanted to call my parents.  But they aren't talking to me for
  16. >>>the last 11 years because I'm a lesbian.  I hope your Administration
  17. >>>will change that."
  18. >
  19. >>I'm missing something.
  20. >
  21. >It's obvious - she wants Clinton to cure her.
  22. >
  23. >At least, that's the way I read it the first time. What's the
  24. >technical term for this sort of sentence problem?
  25.  
  26.    Ambiguous reference (the pronoun "that" is too broad to zoom
  27.    in on what it's referring to).
  28.  
  29.    Wayne
  30.  
  31.