[AT] Some ads from the 10/2 Lancaster Farming

[Dudley Rupert]

Mark,

I am sure yours' is the right interpretation - at least more so than mine!
I think it's amusing/head scratching to try and diagram some of these ads.
With the multiple subjects, modifiers that are as apt to appear after the
subject as before and almost total lack of punctuation I think five
different folks would often come up with five different interpretations.

Dudley

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I read that ad as a JD 520, a JD 60, a JD B, a hydr. car lift, a garden
pulling tractor, an IH 544, a Farmall H, and two Corvettes for sale in
Franklin County, PA. Anyone see something different?
Mark Greer

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>
> John Deere 520 60 A B hydraulic car lift Garon pulling tractor IH 544
> Farmall H (2) Corvettes. Frank. Co. 717-532-2873.
>
> >From my earliest childhood I can still remember hearing mom and dad
telling
> us kids that life isn't fair. I've often thought, however, that life could
> be pretty close to being fair if I could just boast of having one corvette
> parked back in the shed.  But ... here is a guy in Franklin County that
has
> two Farmall H's for sale so he says in his ad that he has (2).  However,
he
> must have so many corvettes for sale that he doesn't even know how many he
> has (or the number he has is too big to put in the ad) so he just simply
> says "corvettes" as in plural/many/more than one.  Gee Whiz, why did I
even
> question mom and dad - of course they were right after all.
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
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