How often do such things happen to you?

I don't get it?

[Always makes me think of this](https://xkcd.com/37/)

in a game world this would never happen, because it would be \[Black Jeep\] owners if it was about black cars and black \[Jeep\] owners if it was about the people

It's not that unusual for a confusion between *[x y] z* and *x [y z]* to occur.  Are military healthcate experts people with knowledge about military healthcare, or healthcare experts who happen to work for the military?

A classic case of non-associativity in adjective binding …

There is ambiguity sometimes, because English is not a heavily inflected language. In some other languages, such Latin or ancient Greek, the forms would make it clear. The other side is that ambiguity sometimes creates space for humor or for poets to exploit, to use language in interesting ways.

The idea of a Facebook group for people that owns such a thing and are also related by their skin color is kinda dumb. It's an honest mistake

It’s a mistake I don’t make very often because I notice the ambiguity first. But there are a lot of ambiguous ways of saying things in English, and there is a lot of humor and fun and embarrassment in those ambiguities.

Literally last night I was at a restaurant and saw "Strawberry Milk Tea" on the menu, and had to ask my girlfriend if it was tea made with strawberry milk or strawberry flavored milk tea

This is where commas came to shine

Semantics for ya

I like to deliberately misinterpret this kind of thing. For example, there was an article about an actress and one part of it was a picture of her with two dogs, something like a Yorkie and a Westie, with the caption "<actress> is a big dog lover". I screenshot it and put it on Facebook with the comment, "but these are small dogs"... implying the caption meant the actress loves big dogs. A friend replied, "the dogs are normal sized, it's the actress that's big"... the implication being that she is a giant. Obviously, the original caption meant that it was her love that's big, i.e. she really loves dogs.

So what is correct here? The group name itself is wrong. Am i right ?

What a weird idea for a group. Both versions. Like, what jeep knowledge could you share that would be specific to black models? Or what do black people who own Jeeps have to say that non-black Jeep drivers wouldn't be interested in?

I read the title as "owners of black Jeeps" and it took me a second to realize what was actually meant. So, yes, native speakers get things like this confused if there isn't enough context to make it clear which one is meant. In most real world situations where I can spot the ambiguity, I usually ask which one they mean if it's not clear from context. If I'm the one writing it and I catch the ambiguity, I try to reword it to make it clear. An example here would be something like "Black people who own Jeeps" or "people who own black Jeeps" depending on which one I mean.

I have seen a similar thing online when talking about London and specifically "black taxi drivers". People asking why does it matter if the taxi driver is black. It doesn't - its the taxis that are black.

"When you say 'angry women's support group,' is it a support group for angry women, or an support group for women, and it just happens to be angry right now?" --Two and a Half Men (I don't remember the season or episode)

The amount of confusion when I heard "chicken fried steak"

use language in interesting ways.

Just be glad you didn't confuse it with Black Owners Jeep.

It's not Wesley Crushers. It's Wesley Crushers.

https://xkcd.com/37/

Personally never, but it can happen.

If it had been the group he thought it was, it could have added a hyphen for clarity: black-jeep owners

I struggled to understand what was wrong here. Took someone explaining it for me to get it!

A better way to phrase the post: "How often does this happen to you?" "The poster accidentally mistook 'Black Jeep Owners' as a group for people with black Jeeps instead of African-American Jeep Owners."

Pretty bizarre group actually. Race has nothing to do with jeep ownership or user experience. If it would have said white it'd be racist.