Editing Talk:1087: Cirith Ungol

I don't think this is correct: "Another possibility of the ambiguity is that the author, E. B. White, was saved from being slaughtered by Charlotte."

The ambiguous sentence is: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.' 

"American author E. B. White" and "who is saved..." are separated by "about a pig named Wilbur" which references the novel.

So the relative clause "who is saved..." cannot reference "American author E. B. White".

[[User:BJL|BJL]] ([[User talk:BJL|talk]]) 05:22, 3 August 2012 (EDT)

I've deleted the sentence cited above from the page.
[[User:BJL|BJL]] ([[User talk:BJL|talk]]) 07:32, 6 August 2012 (EDT)

The ambiguity is if the "by" in "by an intelligent spider..." refers to "is saved" or "being slaughtered" - is he being saved by said spider, or is someone saving him from being slaughtered by said spider? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.85|173.245.55.85]] 20:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Shouldn't it have been some pigs?
Was it really some pig or just some pig?
The answer is in the proof[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 15:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

: I don't fully understand what you are asking in your comment, but 'Some Pig' is the correct phrase from the book. I'm not sure whether the phrase 'Some Pig' might confuse people who don't speak english natively. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 16:28, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

:If I recall the book, the meaning of "Some pig" is "a remarkable pig" (see [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/some#Determiner sense 6] in 
wiktionary). This message persuades the farmer not to slaughter Wilbur as a runt.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.217|141.101.98.217]] 11:49, 20 February 2015 (UTC)