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Hair can be either waxy or wavy or both.


Her long blond waxy hair blew in the wind.

Context.


Her wa[]y hair was a challenge for the hairdresser


I'm not saying the context always disambiguates it. You can have ambiguous sentences even with perfect fonts.


The judge delivered an ambiguous sentence.


> Her long blond waxy hair blew in the wind.

Same question as GP - how can you tell if that was meant to be waxy or wavy?


From the context. Long hair blowing in the wind is a description of beautiful hair. Wavy hair is beautiful; waxy hair is not.

This is very obvious to most people.


"I'll have you know that some people find waxy hair beautifully therefore your example is invalid and I am very intelligent"

:nerd:




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