>Not sure I see the ambiquity in the original. "Some" must apply to a plural, no?
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>Now, if the original had said "a lot of people will share rooms" ......
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>BTW, everybody in my own family had the same response. Yes, there's a high weirdness factor here as well -- my children have long introduced me to their friends with appropriate warnings about humor attempts. As my brother used to say, "a joke a minute, a laugh an hour"
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I can't tell you how many times we've met a friend of one of our kids who, after spending some time with us, said something along the lines of then understanding our son much better. One of the things we really like about Solomon's girlfriend is that she does it, too.


>>>>>If you attend, stay at the conference hotel. Half the conference is the after hour informal interaction with other attendees. A lot of people will share a room, some of which are quite large.

FWIW, my reaction wasn't about the second part of the sentence. I just wanted to know how many were going to share the room.

Tamar