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Haven't you read the new comic book where a mysterious bassoon player terrorizes Gotham City?

Maybe?

Do oboe players think that a duck sounds like an oboe?

Does a duck playing the oboe sound like two oboes or two ducks?

Edited by Vompatti - September 02 2008 at 13:28

If it can, does it sound similar to a duck playing an oboe?

Do you mean who plays it more like a talented human oboist?

What if a human professional oboist could imitate the sound of a singing duck, but make it sound better than the actual duck?

Can you imagine that among ducks there are good singers and bad singers, and that one of the (actual) ducks can be named as the best singer among ducks, and that the imitation of a duck that sounds better than an actual duck sounds exactly like an (imaginary) duck that would be able to sing even better than the actual best singing duck?

We weren't talking about what the singing ducks smell like, were we?

I can, but can I say "The singing ability of this duck stinks like [...]", and if I can, how should this sentence be understood?