Heals The Original Dryness

i am no longer a faerie

it was not vanity that drew her to the mirror;
it was the amazement at seeing her own "I."
-the unbearable lightness of being

1.22.2002

Subj: Yer blog
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 5:52:01 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Jonathan
To: neeliabuzz@aol.com

I, in a characteristically Jonathan move, would like to point out that actually a comma has nothing to do with the issue. To say "good food and sex" leaves the question of whether the sex is good or not open. From the point of view of someone merely observing it, that is. If we were to diagram the sentence, it would be fairly easy to show which one it was. If we established the clause as only "food and sex" then the adjective "good" would affect both, as it affects the entire clause. However, if we were to diagram the sentence with the clause as "good food and sex", we could subdiagram the subjects "good food" and "sex", therefore obviously it the adjective only applies to food.

Now, if one wanted to construct the sentence so that there was no ambiguity, one could either say "good food and good sex" or "sex and good food" depending on the meaning one wanted to convey.

- Jonathan, who has no blog and therefore has to be content with correcting people privately

*laughs* i love you jonathan!

Quoth the Raven # 9:19 PM

Heals The Original Dryness

1.22.2002

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