1. Find two unambiguous (but natural sounding) sentences equivalent to the sentence The man saw the woman with a telescope, the first where the man has the telescope, the second where the woman has the telescope.
2. For each of the three ambiguous newspaper headlines I stated in the lecture, rewrite it in a way that avoids the amusing second meaning, while retaining the brevity of a typical headline:
(a) Sisters reunited after ten years in checkout line at Safeway.
(b) Large hole appears in High Street. City authorities are looking into it.
(c) Mayor says bus passengers should be belted.
3. The following notice was posted on the wall of a hospital emergency room:
NO HEAD INJURY IS TOO TRIVIAL TO IGNORE.
Reformulate to avoid the unintended second reading. (The context for this sentence is so strong that many people have difficulty seeing there is an alternative meaning.)
Doslovni prijevod:
1. Čovjek je vidio ženu sa teleskopom.
Šta bi sad trebalo tu?
a) Čovjek je pomoću teleskopa vidio ženu.
b) Čovjek je vidio ženu koja ima teleskop.