In a previous post we mentioned the ambiguity of or in day-to-day speech. There is another construction that also exhibits this kind of ambiguity, but while the dual meaning of
One of the most curious ambiguities that I know of is the two different meanings of the connective “or”. It’s got an “inclusive” and an “exclusive” meaning, and both of
Not being a professional translator myself but being daily in contact with them, I can only imagine how hard it is to translate jokes based on plays on words. However