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Taka Posted 19 years ago
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What kind of relationships?

0 01i00Seeing her daughter every night and morning, without fail, look into the mirror, and seem to talk with it, her father at length asked her the reason for her strange behavior.02br
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02i00What people do you think are involved here?02br
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00(1)a mother; the mother's daughter; and the mother's father(i.e. the daughter's grandfather)02br
00(2)a mother; the mother's daughter; and the daughter's father02br
00(3)either, depending its context0-
  

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0 Without context, it would be almost impossible to say.0-
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0ugh. That hurt my brain.02br
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00Only 1 is comfortable for me, but I suppose I could stretch it to finding sense in 2 as well.0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10ugh. That hurt my brain.12br
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10Only 1 is comfortable for me, but I suppose I could stretch it to finding sense in 2 as well.12br
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10How would you stretch it to finding sense in 2, nona?0-
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0I suppose I just wanted to force some meaning into it. I can't make it work now...it involved some complicated situation where the mother and/or father also had children with other people.0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10I suppose I just wanted to force some meaning into it. I can't make it work now...it involved some complicated situation where the mother and/or father also had children with other people.12br
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10I see.02br
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00Now, nona, could I ask something gra
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0 Ah I saw it as modifying looking in the mirror. 0-
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01cite10Taka12cite11i10Seeing her daughter every night and morning, without fail, look into the mirror, and seem to talk with it, her father at length asked her the reason for her strange behavior.12i12br
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10I'd say 02br
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0I'll take number one. I think the logical antecedent of the last her is the first her and second her, even though the daughter is the first noun. eg. I love her daughter and her cooking. The best interpretation is that I love the daughter's mother's cooking. But I could be wrong.02br
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00Unless the mother is a transvestite, then I'll say (4) A human and his/her/its o
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0 But where is the mother? I only see a doughter and her father. Obviously without context. But that WAS asked without context...0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite10Ah I saw it as modifying looking in the mirror.12blockquote
10Nona,02br
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00When you say 'I 01i00saw02i00 it', not 'I 01i00see 02i00it', do you mean you see it differently now? Or do you still see it in the same way?0-
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