People she doesn't know

Language Log 2016-10-30

Summary:

Yoram Meroz described this to me as a "lovely ambiguous headline": "Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told people she doesn’t know how her emails wound up on her husband’s computer", Washington Post 10/29/2016. Yoram didn't specify the ambiguity, but I presume that the issue is whether Ms. Abedin [told people [she doesn't know how it happened]], or […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29130

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/30/2016, 23:32

Date published:

10/30/2016, 14:08