A Cyanide & Happiness cartoon collected in the 2010 book Ice Cream & Sadness: An old joke, turning on an ambiguity in some double-object verbs: V NP1 NP2 interpretable either as benefactive (‘V NP2 for NP1’ — e.g. ‘make a woman for me’) or with some other argument structure (in this case, ‘make NP1 into NP2’, … Continue reading A very old joke