Seminar ideas: time flies

A computer programmed to highlight ambiguities found 5 different interpretations of

Time flies like an arrow.

How many can you see?

Here are the computer's interpretations:

• Time proceeds as quickly as an arrow proceeds.
  
  
• Measure the speed of flies in the same way that you measure the speed of an arrow.
  
  
• Measure the speed of flies in the same way that an arrow measures the speed of flies.
  
  
• Measure the speed of flies that resemble an arrow.
  
  
• Flies of a particular kind, time-flies, are fond of an arrow.

This has led to the aphorism Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Taken from The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker.

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