[Grammar] moving related words apart to get

[vaibhavmaskar]

; disambiguating it requires "moving related words apart to get" a panel with four professors on sex.

what is the meaning of the word in quotation?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/steven-pinker-s-sense-of-style/(source)

 

[probus]

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[vaibhavmaskar]

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/steven-pinker-s-sense-of-style/

 

[vaibhavmaskar]

Could anyone give me the answer?

 

[lotus888]

; disambiguating it requires "moving related words apart to get" a panel with four professors on sex.

what is the meaning of the word in quotation?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/steven-pinker-s-sense-of-style/(source)

The text is below. Explanatory comments are in [brackets]. Bold is for emphasis.

The authors of traditional style guides, like Strunk and White, were dimly aware of the problem [ambiguity], but lacked the technical concepts to analyze it, and offered useless advice such as “Keep related words together.” The advice is useless for the [ambiguous] Yale sentence [“a panel on sex with four professors"], the related words panel and on sex in fact are already together; disambiguating it [making it not ambiguous] requires moving related words [panel and on sex] apart to get "a panel with four professors on sex". [quotation marks added for clarity]


Now, see if you can understand the passage.


--lotus