24 mar 2014

Idioms and Ambiguity







  • 1. Bite your tongue
  • 2. Pull my leg
  • 3. He is my English teacher
  • 4. I saw the person with a telescope
  • 5. She doesn’t like short men or women

  • 1. bite your physical tongue / IDIOM: shut up
  • 2. pull my literal leg / IDIOM: play a trick or joke on me
  • 3. He is, actually, my english teacher / IDIOM: he corrects everything I say /AMBIGUITY: He is from England
  • 4. AMBIGUITY: I saw someone THROUGH a telescope, or I saw someone with a telescope in its hand.
  • 5. There is a girl that doesn't like short people / AMBIGUITY: she doesn't like short men and all women.

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