Re: Dinosaurs from La Brea Tar Pits --??--

[Dinogeorge@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 95-11-29 12:28:37 EST, fgunther@ulabsgi.gsfc.nasa.gov
(Fred Gunther) writes:

>Found the following on the WWW.  The gross level of public paleontology 
>errors has reached a new high (low ??).  Some one at UCB should know 
>better than  to suggest that dinosaur bones come from the La Brea Tar Pits.
>
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>The Sather language gets its name from the Sather Tower (popularly
>known as the Campanile), the best-known landmark of the University of
>California at Berkeley.  A symbol of the city and the University, it
>is the Berkeley equivalent of the Golden Gate bridge.  Erected in
>1914, the tower is modeled after St. Mark's Campanile in Venice,
>Italy. It is smaller and a bit younger than the Eiffel tower, and
>closer to most Americans -- and lovers of Venice of course.  Yet, at
>307 feet it houses 50 tons of human, dinosaur and other animal bones
>mostly collected from the La Brea Tar Pits.
>
>

You're partly right. Actually, the sentence is badly ambiguous. It could, for
example, be taken to mean "human bones, dinosaur bones, and animal bones that
were mostly collected from the La Brea Tar Pits." Then it would no longer
imply that human and dinosaur bones had been collected from the La Brea Tar
Pits.