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“Stalking the misplaced modifiers” by Steven Lubet (Op-Ed, April 23) was delightful. His examples should remind us how easy it is to confound meaning.
My favorite, admittedly from a joke book of 50 years ago but still illustrative, is: “Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.”
