Saturday, August 14, 2010

Embedded Implicature: "Police chase man killed by train" (BBC)

From Quinion's World Wide Words, today:

"The news ticker on the BBC site on Tuesday read "Police chase man
killed by train". This was not a report of post-mortem athleticism:
the first three words make up a noun phrase - the police chased a
man, who was then killed by a train. Thanks to everyone who sent
that in."

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