Seeing and sawing, was: Automated translation

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Herman Miller wrote:

> it doesn't need to figure out from context whether "I saw
> the wood" means "I cut the piece of wood with a saw" or "I did see the
> forest".
This reminds me of a classified ad that I cut out of a local
newspaper and kept for years until I lost it moving house:

"Wij zagen alle soorten hout"

This means "We saw all kinds of wood" in both meanings.

   Irina

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