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My Chinese ability rounds down to non-existant, and I apologize for constructing a questionable example. Wang as a family name, and Wang as king or (royal-) wa

My Chinese ability rounds down to non-existant, and I apologize for constructing a questionable example. Wang as a family name, and Wang as king or (royal-) was the first thing that came to mind. Since you know Chinese well, do you know of a good example of a 1-2, vs 2-1 split where both are reasonable but one is much more likely to be semantically correct? I have been told there are quite long sentences that humorously can be segmented two ways and have completely different meanings, but I can't find any. My favorite in English is expertsexchange.com had to change the domain to experts-exchange.com :)

thaumasiotes 6y ago
> I apologize for constructing a questionable example No need; as an example of segmentation, the one you've presented is fine. The biggest problem, mostly irrelevant, is that "prince's courtyard" is pretty archaic. I was objecting to the translation-in-passing of 王家 as "prince". It's defensible to segment the "prince's courtyard" sense 1-1-1, but it's also defensible to segment it 2-1. I don't have an example of the type of you're looking for to hand, but I will see about finding one.