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I don't understand how the first sentence is at all ambiguous. It actually makes more sense to me than the second.
by howeyc 10y ago
I don't understand how the first sentence is at all ambiguous. It actually makes more sense to me than the second.
- jakelazaroff 10y agoSince commas are used for apposition, it's unclear whether the author's mother is Ayn Rand.
- howeyc 10y agoI guess I'm out of the loop then, because I see no other meaning for the first comma when the second one is there. To me it's the second sentence where the commas meaning is ambiguous. Almost like the writer is confused and two entities are its singular "mother."