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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 February 2010 06:43:10AM 3 points [-]

In proper English, that would not be ambiguous; pronouns always refer to their antecedents, and no other applicable noun can come between the pronoun and the antecedent.

nolrai explicitly specified "natural language," not your "proper English."