cyu@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoEuropeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana presidentwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down14
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkEuropeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana presidentwww.theguardian.comcyu@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squarelars@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president is a rare English ambiguity construction that means either: Europeans care more about elephants than Europeans care about people or Europeans care more about elephants than people care about elephants we’ll never know
is a rare English ambiguity construction that means either:
Europeans care more about elephants than Europeans care about people
or
Europeans care more about elephants than people care about elephants
we’ll never know